Literature Reviews

This book shows how to interpret and analyze published and unpublished research literature. The author unravels the intricacies of: selecting questions to maximize the efficiency of the review; identifying subject headings and key words for electronic searches; identifying the most appropriate databases; including supplementing computer and Web-based searches; identifying and dealing with unpublished studies; setting inclusion and exclusion criteria; justifying methods for reviewing only the `highest quality′ literature; preparing a structured literature abstraction form; ensuring the reliability and validity of the review; synthesizing and reporting results; conducting and evaluating descriptive literature reviews; and, how to understand and evaluate the principles of meta-analysis.

A step-by-step guide to doing a literature review in nursing, or related healthcare professions, that takes you through every step of the process from start to finish.

Evidence-Based Medicine -- Resource Guides
Decision Making -- Resource Guides
Review Literature as Topic -- Resource Guides

Financing, Organized
Fund Raising
Financial Support

Proposal writing in education -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Proposal writing for grants -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Education -- Research grants -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

Psychology -- Research -- Methodology
Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
Education -- Research -- Methodology

Biomedical Research -- methods -- United States
Biomedical Research -- ethics -- United States
Biomedical Research -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
Human Experimentation -- United States

Education -- Research -- Methodology
Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)

English language -- Rhetoric
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers
Academic writing -- Problems, exercises, etc

Authorship
Academic writing
Scholarly publishing