75-90 minutes
 

What you can expect to learn (learning outcomes)

This module will show you how to collaborate with an Information Specialist to:

• Identify the key sources to search when conducting a Cochrane Intervention Review
• Suggest concepts and terms to be used in a search strategy
• Identify the elements of the search process that need to be documented and reported

Authors, contributors, and how to cite this module
 

Module 3 has been written and compiled by:

Carol Lefebvre, Independent Information Consultant, Lefebvre Associates Ltd and Lead Convenor, Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group.

Dario Sambunjak, Miranda Cumpston and Chris Watts, Cochrane Central Executive Team.

A full list of acknowledgements is available in the ‘About’ section within the module.

This module should be cited as: Lefebvre C, Sambunjak D, Cumpston M, Watts C. Module 3: Searching for studies. In: Cochrane Interactive Learning: Conducting an intervention review. Cochrane, 2017. Available from interactivelearning.cochrane.org/module-3.

Update and feedback

The module was last updated in January 2025.

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