Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From Paper to the Internet - Couverture rigide

Fink, Arlene

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0761909044 ISBN 13 : 9780761909040

Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1998

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This book shows how to interpret and analyze published and unpublished research literature.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the most appropriate databases; including supplementing computer and Web-based searches; identifying and dealing with unpublished studies; setting inclusion and exclusion criteria; justifying methods for reviewing only the `highest quality' literature; preparing a structured literature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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Arlene Fink (PhD) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and president of the Langley 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 scores of evaluation studies in public health, medicine, and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA’s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and is a scientific and evaluation advisor to UCLA’s Gambling Studies and IMPACT (Improving Access, Counseling & Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer) programs. She consults nationally and internationally for agencies such as L’institut de Promotion del la Prévention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) in Paris, France, and Peninsula Health in Victoria, Australia. Professor Fink has taught and lectured extensively all over the world and is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761909044
• ISBN 13: 9780761909040
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 265
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible