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Chapter 6 Flashcards

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Literature review

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A written summary of the state of evidence on a research problem. It is useful for consumers of nursing research to acquire skills for reading, appraising, and preparing written evidence summaries.

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Purpose of literature reviews

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To summarize evidence on a topic- to sum up what is known and what is not known

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If you are preparing a literature review, you should rely mostly on what?

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Primary sources

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Primary sources

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Descriptions of studies written by researchers who conducted them

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Secondary sources

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Descriptions of studies prepared by someone else

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Literature reviews are what kind of source?

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Secondary

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3 approaches for developing a search strategy

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Bibliographic databases
Ancestry approach (footnote chasing)
Descendancy approach

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Bibliographic databases

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Accessed by computer

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Keyword

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A word or phrase that captures key concepts in your review question

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For quantitative studies, the keywords are usually…

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Independent or dependent variables and perhaps the population

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For qualitative studies, the keywords are…

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The central phenomenon and the population

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3 widely used Boolean operators

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AND, OR, NOT (in all caps)

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Truncation symbols

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*

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One way to force a text word search is…

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Use “ “ around a phrase to retrieve citations in which the exact phrase appears in the text fields.

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CINAHL

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Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

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MEDLINE

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Medical Literature On-Line

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What is CINAHL database?

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An important electronic database for nurses. It provides info for locating references and abstracts for most citations.

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CINAHL source indicates…

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Name of the journal
Year of publication
Volume
Issue
Page numbers

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What is the MEDLINE database?

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Developed by US National Library of a medicine. Premier source for bibliographic coverage of the biomedical literature. Can be accessed for free on the Internet at the PubMed website.

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PubMed website

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A lifelong resource, regardless of your institutions access to bibliographic databases

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MEDLINE uses a controlled vocabulary called… and for what?

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MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
To code and index articles

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Google Scholar

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Hey bibliographic search engine that was launched in 2004. Accessible for free on the Internet

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It is risky to depend on…

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Google Scholar

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Substantive themes

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What is the pattern of evidence?

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Methodologies themes

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What methods have been used to address the question?

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Generalizability/transferability themes

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To what population does the evidence apply?

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What theme is usually the greatest interest?

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Substantive

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Major steps in preparing a written research review include…

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Formulating a question
Devising a search strategy
Searching and retrieving relevant sources
Abstracting and encoding information
Apprasing studies
Analyzing and integrating the information
Preparing a written synthesis

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Literature reviews should rely mostly on what source material?

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Primary

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Strategies for finding studies on a topic include…

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Bibliographic databases, and ancestry approach and the descendancy approach

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The analysis of information from a literature search essentially involves…

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The identification of important themes- regularities and patterns and the information

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The reviewers role is to point out…

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What has been studied
How adequate and dependable the studies are
What gaps exist in the body of research

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The four levels of measurement

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Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio

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Descriptive statistics are used to…

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Summarize and describe quantitative data

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Symmetric skewed

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One tail longer than the other or one peak

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Normal distribution

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Bell-shaped curve

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