Education for Healthcare Professionals (EDHP)

Teaches how to use the matrix method to evaluate articles critically. Covers principles of searching, organizing, reviewing, and synthesizing, includes visual examples and a single case study.

Offers graduate students in education and the social sciences a road map to developing and writing an effective literature review for a research project, thesis, or dissertation.

This step-by-step guide simplifies the process of reviewing published literature, provides a guide to searching, appraising and comparing literature, and offers practical tips on writing up.

This book takes you step-by-step through the process of approaching your literature review systematically, applying systematic principles to a wide range of literature review types. Through numerous examples, case studies and exercises, the book covers often neglected areas of literature review such as concept analysis, scoping and mapping. The book includes practical tools for supporting the various stages of the review process, including; - managing your literature review - searching the literature - assessing the quality of the literature - synthesizing qualitative and/or quantitative data - writing up and presenting data