Research Data Analysis
Evidence Synthesis
Proven Intelligence consultants are experienced in undertaking literature reviews, including scoping reviews and systematic reviews, assessing the quality of the research evidence in a particular field.
Our full systematic review service includes initial development and refinement of your research question through to publication of your review. We offer a literature search design service and undertake comprehensive literature searches for your project, whether this be a systematic review, an economic evaluation, a policy development framework, or a scoping study.
Our service includes attention to appropriate study design filters, reporting standards, bibliographic reference management, full documentation of strategies and, if required, peer review of search processes to ensure quality assurance.
Proven Intelligence consultants use current best practice evaluation and reporting of research, ensuring our clients receive a comprehensive overview of research knowledge in the area. We understand the importance of thorough searching of the research literature, delivered in a systematic, transparent and reproducible way, and ensure our methods represent best practice in information retrieval and reporting.
Research Consultancy
Proven Intelligence provide a consultancy service on conducting research reviews, including protocol design, choice of methodology, advice on strategic approaches to conduct the review, a range of critical appraisal tools to assess the level of evidence, and report templates. In addition to providing the following services directly, our consultants can advise your research team on:
- Development of your research question
- Background literature searches to inform the direction of your study
- Search strategy proposal
- Suitable databases to be searched to find the evidence you are looking for
- Eligibility, inclusion and exclusion criteria
- Search term combinations to find the research studies relevant to you
- Conducting the search strategy
- Production of bibliographic library
- Reviewing titles and abstracts for inclusion
- Sourcing of full text articles
- Preparation of comprehensive flowchart detailing inclusions and exclusions
- Data extraction
- Assessment of the quality of evidence
- Data summary and analysis
- Preparation of fully referenced tables and text
- Preparation of full systematic review publication