Systematic reviews are complicated. Ensuring that they are reproducible and open is even more complex, and it's easy to overlook things or to adopt a workflow which makes reproducibility and transparency difficult to achieve. Whilst there are many (brilliant!) existing guidelines for conducting systematic reviews, many of these focus on a particular type of research centred around interventions. The NIRO Systematic Review checklist aims to provide a comprehensive set of guidelines for non-interventional research to help bring the gold-standard of evidence synthesis to other areas of research.

NIRO is a work in progress, led by Marta Topor and Jade Pickering with an amazing bunch of collaborators. If you're interested in the project, get in touch with Marta or Jade (contact details on the contributors page).

This website will be updated in due course as we finalise the project!

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

To add new posts, simply add a file in the _posts directory that follows the convention YYYY-MM-DD-name-of-post.ext and includes the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.

Here be a sample post with a custom background image. To utilize this “feature” just add the following YAML to a post’s front matter.

image:
  background: filename.png

This little bit of YAML makes the assumption that your background image asset is in the /images folder. If you place it somewhere else or are hotlinking from the web, just include the full http(s):// URL. Either way you should have a background image that is tiled.

If you want to set a background image for the entire site just add background: filename.png to your _config.yml and BOOM — background images on every page!

Demo post displaying the various ways of highlighting code in Markdown.

Try click on the link icon.

Video embeds are responsive and scale with the width of the main content block with the help of FitVids.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/SU3kYxJmWuQ" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Custom written post descriptions are the way to go... if you're not lazy.

A ton of text to test readability.

Just about everything you'll need to style in the theme: headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, tables, code blocks, and more.