The purpose of this guide is to connect you with useful information and resources to learn about the different types of method-driven reviews, such as systematic reviews, scoping reviews, rapid reviews, among others, and the process of conducting them. 

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (2016) defines knowledge syntheses as:

"'the contextualization and integration of research findings of individual research studies within the larger body of knowledge on the topic. A synthesis must be reproducible and transparent in its methods, using quantitative and/or qualitative methods".

Systematic reviews, scoping reviews, rapid reviews, meta-analyses, realist reviews, living systematic reviews, narrative syntheses, practice guidelines, among others, are all forms of knowledge syntheses.