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I'm Dr. Evie Kendal,
Senior Lecturer of
Health Promotion
at Swinburne University
of Technology,
and this video is focused on
pre and post-review
for health research.
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Pre-review refers to
the initial evaluation
of a research proposal or
systematic review protocol.
It aims to identify
methodological flaws
or areas for improvement
before it is too late.
Pre-review is usually conducted
by a small group of experts.
Essentially you
tell these experts
what you're planning to do,
how you're planning to review
the current literature
in a particular area,
and they can provide
feedback before you go
too far down that road,
if there are any
weaknesses in your method.
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Registering your proposed
study to a public registry
helps others see what
you're planning to do
and avoids duplication.
For example, two groups
working on the same
systematic review.
This is called
protocol registration.
Submissions to such registries
typically include
the study design,
the aims and objectives,
the proposed method and
plans for interpretation.
A systematic review
attempts to summarize
all relevant literature
on a given topic.
There must be very
strict inclusion
and exclusion criteria
just to make sure that
everything's included
that's relevant
but that extraneous articles
are not included as they may
distract from the overall
objective of the paper.
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Some example registries include
the World Health Organization's
International Clinical
Trials Registry Platform,
the PROSPERO systematic
review database
and the Open Science Framework.
Some national registries include
the Australian New Zealand
Clinical Trials Registry and
the American Economic
Associations RCT Registry,
which stands for randomized
controlled trial.
These registries make
sure that people know
what research is currently being
undertaken on a
particular topic.
This avoids duplication,
so multiple labs doing the
same trials, but also makes
sure people know what's
about to be released.
You might wonder why
you should register
