N503 Week 2, Part 2

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N503Week 2, Part 2

• Karin Olson, RN, Ph.D.

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What is the purpose of a literature review?

• Learning about what others have done
• Learning where the gaps are
• Developing the knowledge context within which
  your study will be located

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What constitutes a comprehensive literature
review?

• See Linda Slaters notes

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Critiquing research studies

• See class handout or Brink and Wood, Chapter 4
  for critique guide
• Scan the studies you find in your search and
  decide which ones are relevant to you topic
• Develop a critique form and complete it for each
  study you read
• Develop an indexing system to keep track of what
  you read

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What constitutes an integrative review?

• A summary of identified literature
• General approach determined by the person
  conducting the review
• 4 examples in readings
• Consider these as a pattern for your literature
  review assignment

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What is a systematic review?

• Currently, A particular kind of integrative
  review that applies very rigorous and specific
  rules developed by the Cochrane Collaboration.
• http//www.cochrane.org/index0.htm
• PHS 799, Sem B3, Winter 2006
• Summary by Stevens in readings

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Combining qualitative studies

• Reading by Jones outlines 1 approach
• IIQM Noon Seminar on October 25
• 6-10 UEC

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Conceptual mapping Artinian

• What are the relationships between your key
  variables or concepts?
• Four elements
• The phenomenon to be studied
• The state of the knowledge about the part of the
  phenomenon included in the study
• The logical construction or mapping of the
  phenomenon in light of what is already known
• Diagram
• The specific part of the logical construction
  that will be included in the study