Petticrew / Roberts Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences

A Practical Guide
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5014-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Such diverse thinkers as Lao-Tze, Confucius, and U.S. DefenseSecretary Donald Rumsfeld have all pointed out that we need to beable to tell the difference between real and assumed knowledge. Thesystematic review is a scientific tool that can help with thisdifficult task. It can help, for example, with appraising,summarising, and communicating the results and implications ofotherwise unmanageable quantities of data.
This book, written by two highly-respected social scientists,provides an overview of systematic literature review methods:
* * Outlining the rationale and methods of systematicreviews;
* Giving worked examples from social science and otherfields;
* Applying the practice to all social science disciplines;
* It requires no previous knowledge, but takes the reader throughthe process stage by stage;
* Drawing on examples from such diverse fields as psychology,criminology, education, transport, social welfare, public health,and housing and urban policy, among others.
* Including detailed sections on assessing the quality of bothquantitative, and qualitative research; searching for evidence inthe social sciences;
meta-analytic and other methods of evidence synthesis; publicationbias; heterogeneity; and approaches to dissemination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petticrew, Mark

Roberts, Helen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword (William R. Shadish).
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Chapter 1: Why do we need systematic reviews?
Chapter 2: Starting the review: Refining the question anddefining the boundaries.
Chapter 3: What sorts of studies do I include in the review?Deciding on the review's inclusion / exclusion criteria.
Chapter 4: How to find the studies: The literature search.
Chapter 5: How to appraise the studies: An introduction toassessing study quality.
Chapter 6: Synthesising the evidence.
Chapter 7: Exploring heterogeneity and publication bias.
Chapter 8: Disseminating the review.
Chapter 9: Systematic reviews: Urban myths and fairy tales.
Glossary.
Appendix 1: The review process (and some questions to ask beforestarting a review).
Appendix 2: MOOSE Guidelines.
Appendix 3: Example of flow diagram from a systematicreview.
Appendix 4: Example data extraction form.
Appendix 5: Variations in the quality of systematic reviews.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Petticrew is an associate director of the MRC Socialand Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow,Co-ordinator of the ESRC Centre for Evidence-Based Public HealthPolicy, and has written widely on systematic reviews.
Helen Roberts is a social scientist, and professor ofChild Health at City University, where she leads the Child HealthResearch and Policy Unit. Until 2001 she was Head of R&D atBarnardos. Her most recent book is What Works for Children(ed) with Di McNeish and Tony Newman.