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. 2018 Apr 25;7:64. doi: 10.1186/s13643-018-0724-7

Table 1.

High-level steps of a systematic review

Step 1: Conduct a broad search of the literature
Step 2: Screen the search results for relevant articles and exclude all others
Step 3: Extract study characteristics from included studies
Step 4: Synthesise the studies based on extracted characteristics and report on findings