Summary
Contents
Subject index
Searching and Evaluating the Literature
Searching and Evaluating the Literature
Overview
- Purpose and argument of a comprehensive review
- Searching the literature
- Step number one: get to know the librarians
- The search process
- The value of tracking citations
- Evaluating quantitative (QN) and qualitative (QL) research
- The parts of a quantitative research article and what to look for
- The parts of a qualitative research article and what to look for
Purpose and Argument of a Comprehensive Review
Universities place tremendous emphasis on literature review, at every stage from the undergraduate dissertation in UK (and some North American) pre-registration Nursing programmes to the PhD and publication. Everything has a substantial section of literature review. Why? A good part of the answer lies in the model of evidence-based practice.
In 1991, Gordon Guyatt, one of a group of doctors ...
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