Doing a literature review in nursing, health and social care / Michael Coughlan & Patricia Cronin.

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Providing students with straightforward guidance on how to successfully carry out a literature review as part of a research project or dissertation, this book uses examples and activities to demonstrate how to complete each step correctly, from start to finish, and highlights how to avoid common mis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Coughlan, Michael, 1958- (Author)
Cronin, Patricia, 1959- (Author)
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, 2021.
Edition:3rd edition.
Subjects:
Nursing > Research > Methodology.
Medical care > Research > Methodology.
Social service > Research > Methodology.
Nursing Research > methods.
Health Services Research.
Research Design.
Social Work.
Review Literature as Topic.
Omvårdnadsforskning.
Physical Description:178 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • About the authors
  • Authors' acknowledgements
  • Publisher's acknowledgements
  • 1. What is a literature review?
  • 2. Types of literature review
  • 3. Selecting a review topic and searching the literature
  • 4. Reading and organising the literature
  • 5. Critically appraising the literature
  • 6. Combining (synthesising) the results
  • 7. Writing a literature review, plagiarism and referencing
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index.