Conducting Research Literature Reviews 5/e

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 Prevention 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.

Preface Acknowledgments About the Author PART I. Research Design and Sampling Chapter 1: Reviewing the Literature: Why? For Whom? How? What is a Research Literature Review? Why Do One? Gaining Control: Experiments and Observations Systematic, Explicit, Comprehensive, and Reproducible: Four Key Words Choosing an Online Bibliographic Database How Do You Ask for Information? Searching With Boolean Operators Pausing during the Search Changing the Course of the Search Supplementing the Online Search Organizing the Research Literature: Building a Virtual Filing Cabinet Chapter 2: Searching and Screening: The Practical Screen and Methodological Quality Search Screen 1: The Practical Screen Search Screen 2: Methodological Quality Screening Criteria Observational Designs in Brief A Note on Other Designs and Studies: Cross-Sectional Surveys and Consensus Statements Internal and External Validity Criterion for Quality: Sampling The Sampling Unit The Size of the Sample Response Rate PART II. Data Collection, Interventions, Analysis, Results, and Conclusions Chapter 3: Searching and Screening: Methodological Quality Data Collection and Data Sources: Methods and Measures Interventions and Programs: Reviewing the Research Literature to Find out What Works Data Analysis: Statistical Methods in the Research Literature Accounting for Impact Chapter 4: Doing the Review: A Reader's Guide Chapter Types of Information: Methods and Content Eligibility and Actuality Reporting Standards: Checklists for Research Writing and Reviewing How TREND Was Used in a Literature Review Reliable and Valid Reviews Uniform Data Collection: The Literature Review Survey Questionnaire Uniform Data Collection: Definitions and More Pilot Testing the Review Process Establishing Validity Monitoring Quality Chapter 5: What Did You Find? Synthesizing Results Now that You Have Done It, What Do You Do With It? Descriptive Syntheses or Reviews Meta-Synthesis Meta-Analysis Meta-Analyses in Practice: Examples Glossary Author Index Subject Index

"Fink's tone, level, and style is very approachable and understandable which makes it ideal for my students, most of whom are new to the process of literature reviews." -- Jana Nidiffer "This book provides rich, useful, details on conducting literature review & constructing evidenced based reviews." -- Janet Reid-Hector