systematic review study design PERSON: Bill Hogan The effect of moderate gestational alcohol consumption during pregnancy on speech and language outcomes in children: a systematic review. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3892059/ A study design for identifying in the literature prior studies of a pre-determined phenomenon or set of related phenomena according to certain criteria, extracting findings from these studies, and summarizing these findings and/or attempting to draw new conclusions from them which were not justified by any of the individual, prior studies. Many systematic reviews also assess the quality of the studies so reviewed. Red blood cell transfusion in patients with traumatic brain injury: a systematic review protocol. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090399/ systematic review study design study design metadata complete