Greetings,
for my systematic review I have 23 research articles 21 of which I got from PubMed, CINAHL, OVID and WOS. I got 2 articles from British library, the explore further option and these articles are cited as peer-reviewed.
can I put British Library as a database in my Prisma Flow diagram. Or do I indicate that two articles were gotten from british library in my methodology? your answers are highly appreciated.
Dear okeye, The British Library is actually not a database as I know, I think you can just indicate this in your manuscript, I am wondering if are you conducting a meta-analysis regarding RCTs.
I am not conducting a meta-analysis just a systematic review. also my review will not include RCT just Qualitative and descriptive cross-sectional studies.
Dear Okoye,
I believe that the approach of "I indicate that two articles were obtained from the British Library in my methodology" is preferable. These two articles serve as supplementary literature, which is also a common practice.
Sincerely,
Tzu-Hsiang Peng
I have used ten electronic databases for my meta analysis and systematic review. I have given a separate table for this based on total studies collected, stage 1 rejection - title. stage 2 rejection - abstract screening. stage 3 rejection - full article screening, duplicate rejection, final studies count.
For each databases you may give a detail on studies selection process.
In PRISMA flow diagram, you can mention as "studies collected from the databases viz., oxford library,......" and n=23.
For your reference, you may visit my articles for a glance.
I hope I could able to convey for your query!
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