Overview
- Presents a logical approach to systematic literature reviewing
- offers a corrective to flawed guidance in existing books
- An accessible but intellectually stimulating guide with illuminating examples and analogies
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The systematic review is a rigorous method of collating and synthesizing evidence from multiple studies, producing a whole greater than the sum of parts. This textbook is an authoritative and accessible guide to an activity that is often found overwhelming. The authors steer readers on a logical, sequential path through the process, taking account of the different needs of researchers, students and practitioners. Practical guidance is provided on the fundamentals of systematic reviewing and also on advanced techniques such as meta-analysis. Examples are given in each chapter, with a succinct glossary to support the text.
This up-to-date, accessible textbook will satisfy the needs of students, practitioners and educators in the sphere of healthcare, and contribute to improving the quality of evidence-based practice. The authors will advise some freely available or inexpensive open source/access resources (such as PubMed, R and Zotero) to help students how to perform a systemic review, in particular those with limited resources.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Niall McCrae teaches mental health nursing and research methods at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King’s College London. His research interests are dementia, depression, the impact of social media on younger people, and the history of mental health care. Niall has written two previous books: The Moon and Madness (Imprint Academic, 2011) and The Story of Nursing in British Mental Hospitals: Echoes from the Corridors (Routledge, 2016). He is a regular writer for Salisbury Review magazine.
In partnershipPurssell and McCrae have written several papers on research methodology and literature reviewing for healthcare journals. Both have extensive experience of teaching literature reviewing at all academic levels, and explaining complex concepts in a way that is accessible to all
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How to Perform a Systematic Literature Review
Book Subtitle: A Guide for Healthcare Researchers, Practitioners and Students
Authors: Edward Purssell, Niall McCrae
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49672-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49671-5Published: 05 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49672-2Published: 04 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 188
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nursing Research, Nursing Education, Research Skills