The phrase 'a formal systematic' is correct and is usable in written English.
It is usually used to indicate that something is done in an organized and orderly manner. For example, you could say, "The company has a formal systematic approach to solving customer complaints."
We also did not use the reporting standards of a formal systematic review, though we did search systematically for studies that met criteria for analysis.
Techniques range from a formal systematic review (as for the Cochrane Reviews common in medicine) to the rapid drawing together of evidence to inform an emergency situation (as for the Fukushima disaster or the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa).
Since the burgeoning city had not confronted its housing crisis in a formal, systematic way before, Hicks' ambitious task was to develop Charleston's first strategic plan for affordable housing, one that includes a policy framework and a toolkit the city can use to realize its goals over the next five years.
Based on ongoing work on a formal systematic review of the hepatitis C virus care continuum, this paper describes and discusses the rationale for, and how the PRECIS-II instrument can be used on, and modestly adapted to, studies included in the systematic review examining the extent to which studies include elements of efficacy or effectiveness or a combination of the two.
To such extent, the proposed model can interpret and preserve the complexity which lies behind cloud service operation executions, in a formal systematic way.
This review will be the first to include adolescents with bipolar disorder and to provide a formal systematic quality assessment of the studies on cognitive impairment in FEM.
"I have worked with the Army, the Navy, the V.A., and I'm not aware of any formal, systematic process to evaluate professionals," said Dr. Andy Morgan, a psychiatrist at the National Center for P.T.S.D.
Some may perceive it as a limitation that we did not conduct a separate formal systematic review but we capitalized on an existing, recent review [ 5].
We conducted a series of formal systematic reviews and undertook additional primary data analysis to develop and populate a decision analytic model.
As the name suggests, a systematic review adopts a formal and systematic procedure for the conduction of the bibliographic review, with the definition of explicit protocols for obtaining information.
For some topics, summarizing this information systematically would require formal systematic reviews of extensive bodies of literature and hundreds of pages, far beyond the typical short introduction of most research papers.
