A scoping review identifies multiple emerging knowledge synthesis methods, but few studies operationalize the method

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 73, Issue , 2016, Pages 19-28

  Tricco, Andrea C ^a,b   Soobiah, Charlene ^a,c   Antony, Jesmin ^a   Cogo, Elise ^a   Macdonald, Heather ^a   Lillie, Erin ^a   Tran, Judy ^a   D'Souza, Jennifer ^a   Hui, Wing ^a   Perrier, Laure ^c   Welch, Vivian ^d   Horsley, Tanya ^e   Straus, Sharon E ^a,f   Kastner, Monika ^a,b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d BRUYÈRE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Knowledge synthesis; Meta ethnography; Meta narrative; Meta synthesis; Realist review; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; LITERATURE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84961221511     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.08.030     Document Type: Article

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