Guidance
Knowledge Centre
Access our guidance, training, databases and publications.
Welcome to CRD's Knowledge Centre.
Use this Knowledge Centre to learn more about our methodological guidance, leading-edge digital training course, our databases that provide crucial support for the evidence synthesis process for all, and our portfolio of publications and other associated outputs.
The quick links below will take you directly to some of our key resources.
Methodological guidance
We have created methodological guidance for carrying our systematic reviews in healthcare since 1996. Our guidance, Systematic Reviews: CRD's guidance for undertaking reviews in healthcare, is now in its third edition [2009].
Widely used both nationally and internationally, our guidance continues to be recommended as a source of good practice. It promotes high standards in commissioning and conduct by providing practical guidance for undertaking systematic reviews evaluating the effects of health interventions.
Systematic Reviews is freely available to download and is also available in a print version [ISBN: 1900640473 / ISBN13: 9781900640473].
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Our online course Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Critical Appraisal offers an in-depth introduction to systematic reviews and evidence synthesis methods.
Delivered by experts from CRD, the course is suitable for people from any role or discipline with an interest in learning about the systematic review process.
Databases
We manage a number of current and archive databases that provide a valuable and feely accessible contribution to the evidence synthesis process.
Publications archive
We maintain an archive of all of the work that CRD has carried out dating back to 1994. The archive is structured by the type of publication:
- Journal articles
- Effectiveness Matters
- Evidence briefings
- Reports and books
- Posters