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How to Do a Systematic Literature Review in Nursing: a Step- by-Step Guide: Edition 2

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From writing your review question to writing up your review, this practical book is the perfect workbook companion if you are doing your first literature review for study or clinical practice improvement.

The book features sample review case studies to help identify good practice as well as the pitfalls to avoid, and the practical explanations will be invaluable at every stage. A must buy!

“This is a valuable text that will prove useful for nurses who are planning to write a systematic review of the literature, whether as part of an academic assignment or for publication. The book is clearly written, easy to follow and comprehensive, taking readers through all of the key steps in a literature review. It offers a range of case studies and examples that will help to contextualise and clarify the steps of a review.

The authors also signpost readers to a variety of resources and provide practical tips, summaries and templates to work through as part of the review process. This will be an important text for undergraduate and post-graduate nurses and I thoroughly recommend it.” Professor Fiona Irvine, Head of Nursing, University of Birmingham, UK

“This book is a very comprehensive, well written and illustrated key text on systematic reviews for anyone involved in research within nursing. Its strengths are its well laid-out format, mixing figures and tables with real examples throughout. It is a key resource for both the novice and more advanced researcher and will be a major support to students from basic degree right up to PhD level.” Dr. Pauline Joyce, Academic Co ordinator, RCSI School of Medicine, Ireland

“This timely second edition of this book will form a core text for many nursing and healthcare students and their lecturers. The book provides a highly practical, thorough and logical overview to enable even novices to undertake a systematic literature review. Unlike some other methodological texts, the book is written in an easily accessible style, yet provides the necessary theoretical underpinning presented in a non-threatening way. The reader is directed to useful resources and the Q&A sections that follow the chapter summaries are helpful for students to self-assess their learning. The key points keep the reader on track, and helpful practical tips are woven into the text throughout. It’s a great book!” Dr. Debbie Roberts, Professor in Nurse Education and Clinical Learning, and Head of the Research Centre for the School of Social and Life Sciences, Glyndwr University, UK

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How to do a Systematic Literature Review in Nursing: A step-by-step guide (2nd Edition)

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T1 - How to do a Systematic Literature Review in Nursing: A step-by-step guide (2nd Edition)

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N2 - This is 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. From writing your review question to writing up your review, this practical book is the perfect workbook companion if you are doing your first literature review for study or clinical practice improvement. The book features sample review case studies to help identify good practice as well as the pitfalls to avoid, and the practical explanations will be invaluable at every stage.

AB - This is 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. From writing your review question to writing up your review, this practical book is the perfect workbook companion if you are doing your first literature review for study or clinical practice improvement. The book features sample review case studies to help identify good practice as well as the pitfalls to avoid, and the practical explanations will be invaluable at every stage.

SN - 9780335263806

BT - How to do a Systematic Literature Review in Nursing: A step-by-step guide (2nd Edition)

How to Do a Systematic Review: A Best Practice Guide for Conducting and Reporting Narrative Reviews, Meta-Analyses, and Meta-Syntheses

Affiliations.

• 1 Behavioural Science Centre, Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, United Kingdom; email: [email protected].
• 2 Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom.
• 3 Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA; email: [email protected].
• PMID: 30089228
• DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-102803

Systematic reviews are characterized by a methodical and replicable methodology and presentation. They involve a comprehensive search to locate all relevant published and unpublished work on a subject; a systematic integration of search results; and a critique of the extent, nature, and quality of evidence in relation to a particular research question. The best reviews synthesize studies to draw broad theoretical conclusions about what a literature means, linking theory to evidence and evidence to theory. This guide describes how to plan, conduct, organize, and present a systematic review of quantitative (meta-analysis) or qualitative (narrative review, meta-synthesis) information. We outline core standards and principles and describe commonly encountered problems. Although this guide targets psychological scientists, its high level of abstraction makes it potentially relevant to any subject area or discipline. We argue that systematic reviews are a key methodology for clarifying whether and how research findings replicate and for explaining possible inconsistencies, and we call for researchers to conduct systematic reviews to help elucidate whether there is a replication crisis.

Keywords: evidence; guide; meta-analysis; meta-synthesis; narrative; systematic review; theory.

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• Meta-Analysis as Topic*
• Publication Bias
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Systematic Review

What is a systematic review, types of systematic reviews, steps in a systematic review.

• Developing a search strategy
• Search techniques
• Systematically search databases
• Appraisal & synthesis
• Reporting findings
• Systematic review tools

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A systematic review is commonly characterised by:

• A well-defined research question
• Transparent search terms and database selection
• Exclusion/inclusion criteria with evaluation of search findings
• A research project structure with elements such as Introduction, Method, Result, Discussion

A systematic review is considered secondary research because it uses research by others and does not involve data collection for a new research project.

Video: Conducting a systematic literature review   (3.17 mins). A quick overview and comparison with traditional literature reviews.

How is it different from a traditional literature review?

The purpose of systematic review is different from that of a traditional literature review.

A systematic review further

• involves a clearly articulated search process and selection criteria of the literature which is closely examined before being included in the review.
• uses a search and selection procedure that is transparent and can be replicated. 

In a traditional literature review, the researcher

• selects and examines studies related to the research topic.
• does not have to make visible the search and selection process and criteria.

See more detailed comparison for both types of reviews in this PDF:

• Comparison table of traditional and systematic reviews

There are four common types of reviews using systematic methods:

• Systematic literature reviews
• Rapid reviews
• Scoping reviews
• Integrative reviews

For a more detailed comparison, see this PDF:

• Comparison of the common types of reviews

A common feature of these reviews is the goal of reducing bias in the search and selection of studies.

This bias mainly refers to:

• Availability of resources
• Researcher’s degree of objectivity
• Degree of similarity in type and content of research

A common strategy for reducing bias:

• Extended time to perform a thorough search in published and ‘yet to be published’ articles
• Two or more reviewers following transparent processes of conducting searches and making selections
• Homogeneity of selected research articles

Right review

Right review is a tool to assist users selecting a review type from the 41 quantitative or qualitative knowledge synthesis methods.

References and Furtherreading 

Centre for Evidence Synthesis in Health. (2018, January 4). The steps of a systematic review [Video]. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FQSsnaAtOU

Librarian Carrie Price. (2021, May 18). Systematic vs scoping review: What’s the difference [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVckIl8_ZCg

Munn, Z., Peters, M. D. J., Stern, C., Tufanaru, C., McArthur, A., & Aromataris, E. (2018). Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach.  BMC Medical Research Methodology , 18 , Article 143.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0611-x

Munn, Z., Stern, C., Aromataris, E., Lockwood, C., & Jordan, Z. (2018). What kind of systematic review should I conduct? A proposed typology and guidance for systematic reviewers in the medical and health sciences.  BMC Medical Research Methodology ,  18, Article 5.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-017-0468-4

Peters, M. D. J., Godfrey, C., McInerney, P., Munn, Z., Tricco, A. C., Khalil, H. (2020). Scoping reviews. In E. Aromataris, & Z. Munn (Eds.),  JBI manual for evidence synthesis.  Joanna Briggs Institute.  https://doi.org/10.46658/JBIMES-20-12

Peters, M. D. J., Marnie, C., Tricco, A. C., Pollock, D., Munn, Z., Alexander, L., McInerney, P., Godfrey, C. M., & Khalil, H. (2020). Updated methodological guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews.  JBI Evidence Synthesis ,  18 (10), 2119– 2126.  https://doi.org/10.11124/JBIES-20-00167

Pringle, J., Mills, K., McAteer, J., Jepson, R., Hogg, E., Anand, N., & Blakemore, S. J. (2016). A systematic review of adolescent physiological development and its relationship with health-related behaviour: A protocol. Systematic Reviews, 5 , Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-015-0173-5

Temple University Library (2021, June 11).  Systematic reviews & other review types . Retrieved July 8, 2021, from  https://guides.temple.edu/c.php?g=78618&p=3879604

Tricco, A. C., Lillie, E., Zarin, W., O'Brien, K., Colquhoun, H., Kastner, M., Levac, D., Ng, C., Sharpe, J. P., Wilson, K., Kenny, M., Warren, R., Wilson, C., Stelfox, H. T., & Straus, S. E. (2016). A scoping review on the conduct and reporting of scoping reviews.  BMC Medical Research Methodology ,  16 (1), 15.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-016-0116-4

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Further reading 

Bettany-Saltikov, J. (2016). How to do a systematic literature review in nursing: A step-by-step guide (2nd ed.). Open University Press.

Cranwell, M. (2021). A mixed-methods systematic review of transitions for caregivers of people living with dementia . SAGE. 

Muka, T., Glisic, M., Milic, J., Verhoog, S., Bohlius, J. Bramer, W., Chowdhury, R., & Franco, O. H .  (2020). A 24-step guide on how to design, conduct, and successfully publish a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research.  European Journal of Epidemiology,   35 ,   49–60.  https://doi,org/10.1007/s10654-019-00576-5

Gough, D., Oliver, S., & Thomas, J. (Eds.). (2017). An introduction to systematic reviews  (2nd ed.). SAGE. 

Gough, D., Oliver, S., & Thomas, J. (Eds.). (2018). Systematic reviews and research . SAGE. 

Biondi-Zoccai, G. (Ed.). (2016). Umbrella reviews: Evidence synthesis with overviews of reviews and meta-epidemiologic studies . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25655-9  

Holly, C., Salmond, S., & Saimbert, M. (2021). Comprehensive Systematic Review for Advanced Practice Nursing (3rd ed.). Springer. 

Higgins, J. P. T., Thomas, J., Chandler, J., Cumpston, M., Li, T., Page, M. J., & Welch, V. A. (Eds). (2021). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 6.2. Cochrane. https://training.cochrane.org/handbook . 

Petticrew, M., & Roberts, H. (2006). Systematic reviews in the social sciences: A practical guide . John Wiley & Sons. 

Tawfik, G. M., Dila, K. A. S., Mohamed, M. Y. F., Tam, D. N. H., Kien, N. D., Ahmed, A. M., & Huy, N. T. (2019). A step by step guide for conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis with simulation data. Tropical Medicine Health, 47 , Article 46. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-019-0165-6

Tod, D. (2019). Conducting systematic reviews in sport, exercise, and physical activity . Palgrave Macmillan. 

Toronto, C. E., & Remington, R. (Eds.). (2020). A step-by-step guide to conducting an integrative review . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37504-1

 Zawacki-Richter, O., Kerres, M., Bedenlier, S., Bond, M., & Buntins, K. (Eds.). (2020). Systematic Reviews in Educational Research: Methodology, Perspectives and Application . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27602-7

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