Review methods

Question 1

What is a narrative review/

Answer 1

Supports ongoing work
critiques and summarises a body of litreture
draws conclusions about a topic

Question 2

What is a systematic review?

Answer 2

Aims to answer a specific research question related to the effectiveness of the intervention
rigorous process to appraise and locate all data

Question 3

What is meta-anaylsis?

Answer 3

Form of systematic review but with statistical analysis of quantitive studies
Takes findings from several studies
Analyses them using stats

Question 4

What is meta-synthesis?

Answer 4

Qualitative
-non-statistical
identifies common themes
range of new findings to generate new concepts