Title: Health sciences literature review made easy : the matrix method /
Authors: Garrard, Judith.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Review Literature as Topic; Medical literature Research Methodology.; Matrix method (Indexing); Medicine Abstracting and indexing.; Information storage and retrieval systems Medicine; Writing; Abstracting and Indexing; Information Storage and Retrieval
Abstract: Reference tool to aid students, researchers, and clinicians across all health disciplines. Addresses conducting a search of literature using electronic databases, organizing journal articles, choosing topics to abstract, and creating abstracts of research articles to write a synthesis of the literature.
Contents: Introduction -- Basic concepts -- Paper trail: how to plan and manage a search of the literature -- Documents section: how to select and organize documents for review -- Review matrix: how to abstract the research literature -- Synthesis: how to use a review matrix to write a synthesis -- A library of lit review books -- The matrix indexing system -- Matrix applications by health sciences professionals.