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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/academic-researcher
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skills/systematic-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261005.657a54c, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 19, 2026
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- 7,973 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Runs a PRISMA-compliant systematic review from PICO question and pre-registered protocol through search strings, two-stage screening, risk-of-bias appraisal, and GRADE-rated synthesis. Use when someone asks "run a systematic review", "build my search strategy and inclusion criteria", "screen these studies against a protocol", or "meta-analyze the evidence on X". Do NOT use for a thematic narrative review of a field without a registered protocol and exhaustive search - use literature-review…
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What the file says
# Systematic Review A systematic review answers one focused question by finding, appraising, and synthesizing all relevant studies with a transparent, reproducible method. The costly failure it prevents is post-hoc bias: deciding what counts as evidence after seeing the results. Every eligibility decision is therefore locked in a protocol before the first search runs, and every excluded study leaves a logged reason. Follow PRISMA 2020 throughout. ## Operating procedure Order is mandatory: the protocol must exist before the search, and the search before screening, or the review is not systematic - it is a literature review wearing a lab coat (route that job to literature-review). ### Step 1: Gather inputs and frame the PICO question Collect from the user before starting: - The research question, decomposed into **P**opulation, **I**ntervention/Exposure, **C**omparison, **O**utcome. If it has no clear PICO, refuse and help them write one - a question like "is telehealth good?" cannot be reviewed. - Intended study designs (RCTs only? observational too?). - Databases available to them (default: PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, plus one field-specific database - a minimum of 3). …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/academic-researcher/systematic-review@sha256:6f622a0b82b0cbcbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.657a54c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jun 19, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 36 days.
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| git:20261005.657a54c latest | 2026-10-05 | 657a54c | 7,973 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.afb4be5 | 2026-07-05 | afb4be5 | 7,934 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260704.0321639 | 2026-07-04 | 0321639 | 7,974 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260619.8a1ecd4 | 2026-06-19 | 8a1ecd4 | 2,572 B | A | view |
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Source
skillmedev/academic-researcher · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bcofg7knmujdpe5e GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/academic-researcher/systematic-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6f622a0b82b0cbcb9e86aad4b0e9ad3b01ac2fac0c7e786fcd64ab5874694063
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