Secondary Research

Question 0

What are the components of a systematic literature review?

Answer 0

Explicit methods and search strategy

Narrow methods

Often includes statistics summary or meta analysis

Useful when there are many papers addressing same question using similar methods

Question 1

What is a systematic literature review?

Answer 1

Many papers with the same research question

Question 2

What is a narrative literature review?

Answer 2

Reviewing papers with different research questions

Question 3

What are the components of a narrative literature review?

Answer 3

Search strategy not necessarily explicit

Comprehensive

Does not usually include statistical summary

Useful when there are papers addressing different research questions using different methods

Question 4

Narrative vs systematic literature review

Answer 4

Narrative literature review may have selection bias but sometimes a systematic review is not an option