Doing a Systematic Review
eBook - PDF

Doing a Systematic Review

A Student′s Guide

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Doing a Systematic Review

A Student′s Guide

About this book

Completing a systematic review and unsure where to start or what path to take? Set out on your journey confidently with this practical guide written by a team of experienced academics. 

With a friendly, accessible style, the book covers every step of the systematic review process, from planning to dissemination. 

This book will help you to: 
• Work with qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods data
• Understand the how-to of systematic reviews with a range of real-life examples and case studies
• Learn from students who have been in your shoes with FAQs taken from actual supervision meetings. 

This book will not only support you to overcome common challenges and pitfalls, it will give you the knowledge and skills to produce an excellent review and you might even enjoy the journey!

Alongside updated examples and case studies, this edition also includes two new chapters to help you write and register your review protocol and understand and synthesise data from correlational and experimental studies. 

The book is accompanied by an online guide for teaching, including videos, example documents, further reading, software recommendations and weblinks.

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Table of contents

  1. DOING A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.-FRONT COVER
  2. DOING A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. CONTENTS
  5. LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND BOXES
  6. DISCOVER THIS TEXTBOOK’S ONLINE RESOURCES
  7. ABOUT THE EDITORS
  8. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
  9. FOREWORD
  10. TEN STEP ROADMAP TO YOUR SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
  11. PREFACE
  12. CHAPTER - 1 WHAT IS A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW?
  13. CHAPTER - 2 PLANNING AND MANAGING MY REVIEW
  14. CHAPTER - 3 DEFINING MY REVIEW QUESTION AND IDENTIFYING INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION CRITERIA
  15. CHAPTER - 4 WRITING A PROTOCOL
  16. CHAPTER - 5 DEVELOPING MY SEARCH STRATEGY
  17. CHAPTER - 6 APPLYING INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION CRITERIA
  18. CHAPTER - 7 DATA EXTRACTION: WHERE DO I BEGIN?
  19. CHAPTER - 8 QUALITY ASSESSMENT: WHERE DO I BEGIN?
  20. CHAPTER - 9 UNDERSTANDING AND CRITICALLY APPRAISING DATA FROM EXPERIMENTAL AND CORRELATIONAL STUDIES
  21. CHAPTER - 10 UNDERSTANDING AND SYNTHESIZING NUMERICAL DATA FROM INTERVENTION STUDIES
  22. CHAPTER - 11 UNDERSTANDING AND SYNTHESIZING QUALITATIVE DATA
  23. CHAPTER - 12 REVIEWING ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS
  24. CHAPTER - 13 WRITING MY DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
  25. CHAPTER - 14 DISSEMINATING MY REVIEW
  26. EPILOGUE
  27. GLOSSARY
  28. REFERENCES
  29. INDEX