Andrew Booth

TL;DR: Few review types possess prescribed and explicit methodologies and many fall short of being mutually exclusive, but this typology provides a valuable reference point for those commissioning, conducting, supporting or interpreting reviews, both within health information and the wider health care domain.

TL;DR: A critical review of existing conceptualisations of implementation fidelity and a new conceptual framework for understanding and measuring the process are developed, which requires testing by empirical research.

TL;DR: The SPIDER tool is used to advance thinking beyond PICO in its suitable application to qualitative and mixed methods research, however, the need for improved indexing of qualitative articles in databases is highlighted.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe their experiences, as a very diverse multidisciplinary group, in attempting to incorporate qualitative research in a systematic review of support for breastfeeding, and show how every stage of the review process, from asking the review question through to searching for and sampling the evidence, appraising the evidence and producing a synthesis, provoked profound questions about whether a review that includes qualitative research can remain consistent with the frame offered by current systematic review methodology.

TL;DR: 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.