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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Research, Technology, Methods > methodology > research methods > systematic review
Preferred Term:

systematic review

Definition:
A form of structured literature review that addresses a question that is formulated to be answered by analysis of evidence, and involves objective means of searching the literature, applying predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria to this literature, critically appraising the relevant literature, and extraction and synthesis of data from evidence base to formulate findings.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Core
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
research methods
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/138090
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