Skip to Main Content

Systematic Reviews: Checking your search strategy

Testing your search with known papers

PRESS: Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies

Performing a high quality electronic search of information resources ensures the accuracy and completeness of the evidence used in your review. However, errors have been found in search strategies of systematic reviews (even Cochrane ones!). PRESS EBC is an evidence-based checklist that has been developed to guide and inform the peer review of search strategies for database searching and can also be used to check your own search strategy.