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  1. Narrative Reviews: Flexible, Rigorous, and Practical

    A meta-narrative review seeks to explore and make sense of contradictions and tensions within the literature. A meta-narrative review maps how a certain topic is understood in distinct ways, conducts a focused search to describe and compare narratives, and then seeks to make sense of how such narratives are interpreted across different ...

  2. Narrative Literature Review

    A narrative literature review is an integrated analysis of the existing literature used to summarize a body of literature, draw conclusions about a topic, and identify research gaps. By understanding the current state of the literature, you can show how new research fits into the larger research landscape. ... Demonstrate the importance of a ...

  3. The Structure and Conduct of a Narrative Literature Review

    Writing a narrative literature review requires careful planning. This chapter summarizes some key steps in reviewing the literature. First, a team needs to be formed. ... it is important to keep the review focused, but to make it interesting for a broad audience. Seventh, a good review of the literature does not just list the main achievements ...

  4. An Introduction to Writing Narrative and Systematic Reviews

    A narrative review is the "older" format of the two, presenting a (non-systematic) summation and analysis of available literature on a specific topic of interest. Interestingly, probably because the "approach" is non-systematic, there are no acknowledged formal guidelines for writing narrative reviews.

  5. Narrative Review

    A narrative literature review is an integrated analysis of the existing literature used to summarize a body of literature, draw conclusions about a topic, and identify research gaps. By understanding the current state of the literature, you can show how new research fits into the larger research landscape. ... Demonstrate the importance of a ...

  6. Writing Narrative Literature Reviews

    Narrative literature reviews serve a vital scientific function, but few resources help people learn to write them. As compared with empirical reports, literature reviews can tackle broader and more abstract questions, can engage in more post hoc theorizing without the danger of capitalizing on chance, can make a stronger case for a null-hypothesis conclusion, and can appreciate and use ...

  7. How to Conduct a Systematic Review: A Narrative Literature Review

    Review. Narrative reviews are a discussion of important topics on a theoretical point of view, and they are considered an important educational tool in continuing medical education [].Narrative reviews take a less formal approach than systematic reviews in that narrative reviews do not require the presentation of the more rigorous aspects characteristic of a systematic review such as reporting ...

  8. Writing a literature review

    A literature review is not just about reporting published facts; it requires careful consideration of the published literature to construct an unbiased narrative supported by published evidence. Whilst summarising published findings, it is important for you to add perspective by commenting on the quality of the evidence presented.

  9. Improving the peer review of narrative literature reviews

    As the size of the published scientific literature has increased exponentially over the past 30 years, review articles play an increasingly important role in helping researchers to make sense of original research results. Literature reviews can be broadly classified as either "systematic" or "narrative". Narrative reviews may be broader in scope than systematic reviews, but have been ...

  10. PDF Writing Narrative Literature Reviews

    literature review article is a very infrequent but often a very important career contribution. Yet, despite the importance of narrative literature reviews, no easy and available way to learn to write them is known. Research methods text- books do not usually explain how to do them,

  11. How to Write a Systematic Review: A Narrative Review

    Background. A systematic review, as its name suggests, is a systematic way of collecting, evaluating, integrating, and presenting findings from several studies on a specific question or topic.[] A systematic review is a research that, by identifying and combining evidence, is tailored to and answers the research question, based on an assessment of all relevant studies.[2,3] To identify assess ...

  12. Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and guidelines

    As mentioned previously, there are a number of existing guidelines for literature reviews. Depending on the methodology needed to achieve the purpose of the review, all types can be helpful and appropriate to reach a specific goal (for examples, please see Table 1).These approaches can be qualitative, quantitative, or have a mixed design depending on the phase of the review.

  13. The Art and Science of Writing Narrative Reviews

    al bias in the appraisal of retrieved articles, and interpretation of findings, they serve as sources of quick up-to-date reference for specific areas of interest of readers. Well-conducted reviews could inform readers about gaps in existing literature and areas that need new primary research. Crafting a narrative review requires a blend of good scientific approach and the skillful art of ...

  14. Traditional or narrative literature reviews

    Onwuegbuzie and Frels (pp 24-25, 2016) define four common types of narrative reviews: General literature review that provides a review of the most important and critical aspects of the current knowledge of the topic. This general literature review forms the introduction to a thesis or dissertation and must be defined by the research objective ...

  15. (PDF) Writing Narrative Literature Reviews

    PDF | Narrative literature reviews serve a vital scientific function, but few resources help people learn to write them. ... 2019), and the literature review, as an important method of collecting ...

  16. Literature Review: The What, Why and How-to Guide

    Narrative review: The purpose of this type of review is to describe the current state of the research on a specific topic/research and to offer a critical analysis of the literature reviewed. Studies are grouped by research/theoretical categories, and themes and trends, strengths and weakness, and gaps are identified.

  17. The Structure and Conduct of a Narrative Literature Review

    Writing a narrative literature review requires careful planning. This chapter summarizes some key steps in reviewing the literature. First, a team needs to be formed. ... it is important to keep the review focused, but to make it interesting for a broad audience. Seventh, a good review of the literature does not just list the main achievements ...

  18. Narrative reanalysis: A methodological framework for a new brand of

    Narrative review: Considers literature relevant to a specific topic and describes evidence with less emphasis on evaluation criteria and methodological matters than other forms of review. ... For narrative reviews, it is important to have a clear methodology to provide meaningful insights that complement systematic reviews. 11 The foundation ...

  19. PDF Writing narrative literature reviews for peer-reviewed journals

    Narrative Literature Review There are three types of narrative reviews of the literature: editorials, commentaries, and overview articles.4,15 Editorials, typically written by the editor of the jour-nal or an invited guest, may be a narrative review if the author retrieves and synthesizes information about a particular topic for the reader ...

  20. Narrative Reviews

    Narrative reviews are an umbrella term for a collection of reviews that offer the opportunity to undertake an extensive description and interpretation of previously published literature. Narrative reviews are flexible yet rigorous and have five elements that are consistent across most sub-types. Reflexivity is an important component of ...

  21. Traditional or Narrative Reviews

    Onwuegbuzie and Frels (pp 24-25, 2016) define four common types of narrative reviews: General literature review that provides a review of the most important and critical aspects of the current knowledge of the topic. This general literature review forms the introduction to a thesis or dissertation and must be defined by the research objective ...

  22. What is a literature review?

    A literature or narrative review is a comprehensive review and analysis of the published literature on a specific topic or research question. The literature that is reviewed contains: books, articles, academic articles, conference proceedings, association papers, and dissertations. It contains the most pertinent studies and points to important ...

  23. Literature Review

    Narrative Review: The purpose of this type of review is to describe the current state of the research on a specific topic/research and to offer a critical analysis of the literature reviewed. Studies are grouped by research/theoretical categories, and themes and trends, strengths and weakness, and gaps are identified.

  24. LSBU Library: Literature Reviews: What is a Literature Review?

    A literature review is an academic text that surveys, synthesizes, and critically evaluates the existing literature on a specific topic. ... Narrative Reviews: These provide a qualitative summary of the literature and are often used to give a broad overview of a topic. They may be less structured and more subjective, focusing on synthesizing ...

  25. Types of Literature Review

    1. Narrative Literature Review. A narrative literature review, also known as a traditional literature review, involves analyzing and summarizing existing literature without adhering to a structured methodology. It typically provides a descriptive overview of key concepts, theories, and relevant findings of the research topic.

  26. Nurse and pain in home palliative care: narrative review of the

    From a 2019 cohort study, the importance of mediation by home healthcare personnel emerges, through pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, such as physical therapy, procedures and aids for pain management. ... METHODS: Literature narrative review on PubMed, Cochrane, CINAHL and EMBASE. The review was based on the steps and ...

  27. Acute lung injury and post-cardiac arrest syndrome: a narrative review

    Post-cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS) presents a multifaceted challenge in clinical practice, characterized by severe neurological injury and high mortality rates despite advancements in management strategies. One of the important critical aspects of PCAS is post-arrest lung injury (PALI), which significantly contributes to poor outcomes. PALI arises from a complex interplay of ...