Collecting and Cleaning Data for Your Review

This one hour and a half online training in the NIH Library Evidence Synthesis Review series provides an overview of the data collection process for your review. The training will cover how to clean the data and the importance of this step to ensuring accurate data is collected from each included article. 

By the end of this training, attendees will be able to: 

• Describe an overview of the data collection process 

• Name 2 tools used for data collection 

• Identify the number of people needed to collect the data 

• Explain the importance of defining your variables to collect 

• Understand the importance of piloting the data collection process 

Attendees are not expected to have prior knowledge of how to conduct a review. It is recommended that those planning to undertake a review, should register for the Evidence Synthesis series that take a deeper dive into the required methods for each step in a review.   NIH