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Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From Paper to the Internet

Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From Paper to the Internet

by Dr . Arlene G . Fink (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

This book shows how to interpret and analyze published and unpublished research literature.

The author unravels the intricacies of: selecting questions to maximize the efficiency of the review; identifying subject headings and key words for electronic searches; identifying the most appropriate databases; including supplementing computer and Web-based searches; identifying and dealing with unpublished studies; setting inclusion and exclusion criteria; justifying methods for reviewing only the `highest quality' literature; preparing a structured literature abstraction form; ensuring the reliability and validity of the review; synthesizing and reporting results; conducting and evaluating descriptive literature reviews; and, how to understand and evaluate the principles of meta-analysis.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 280
 Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 21 May 1998
ISBN 10: 0761909052
ISBN 13: 9780761909057

Media Reviews

There is finally a book available that removes the mystery and guesswork from doing literature reviews. This is especially important for both graduate and undergraduate levels if you are asking the students to make judgments about the quality and applicability of articles they may read. This book is not only timely but also a valuable way to help students evaluate articles they find on the Internet.

-- Anita VanBrackle
Author Bio
Arlene Fink (Ph.D.) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at theUniversity ofCalifornia,Los Angeles and President of theLangley Research Institute. Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality. Dr. Fink has conducted many research studies in medicine, public health and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA's Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and itsHealthServicesResearchCenter and is on the Advisory Board of theUniversity ofSouthern California'sMinorityResearchCenter. She is also a consultant to the American Society for Bioethics, the International Society for Clinical Bioethics, and L'institut de Promotion del la Prevention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) Paris, France. Professor Fink has lectured extensively in theUnited States and internationally and is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.