LibGuides: Literature Reviews: Other Review Types

Other Review Types

Critical Review
Aims to demonstrate writer has extensively researched literature and critically evaluated its quality. Goes beyond mere description to include degree of analysis and conceptual innovation. Typically results in hypothesis or mode.

Grant, M. J. and Booth, A. (2009), A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 26: 91–108. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x

Rapid Review
A process-limited systematic review designed to provide timely evidence-based support for policy decisions.

Lorenzetti, D. L., Pethrick, H., Nowell, L., Lorenzetti, L., Jacobsen, M., & Oddone-Paolucci, E. (2020). Mentorship in medical residency education: Anatomy of a systematic review. SAGE Research Methods Cases. doi:10.4135/9781529714180

Mixed Methods Review
Mixed-methods systematic reviews can be defined as combining the findings of qualitative and quantitative studies within a single systematic review to address the same overlapping or complementary review questions.

Harden A. Mixed-Methods Systematic Reviews: Integrating quantitative and qualitative findings. NCDDR:FOCUS. 2010.

Integrative Review
A review method that summarizes past empirical or theoretical literature to provide a more comprehensive understanding of a particular phenomenon or healthcare problem.

Broome, M. E. (2000). Integrative Literature Reviews for the Development of Concepts. In B. Rodgers & K. Knafl (Authors), Concept Development in Nursing (pp. 231-250). Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders Company.

Realist review
A theory-driven method for exploring complex social processes and how they work.

State‐of‐the‐art review
Tend to address more current matters in contrast to other combined retrospective and current approaches. May offer new perspectives on issue or point out area for further research

Articles on Review Types

Advances in Rapid Reviews
This collection covers recent advancements in methods, including full rapid review research articles and methodologies, as well as particular developments to facilitate the timely production of systematic reviews.
Expediting systematic reviews: methods and implications of rapid reviews
This review sought to examine methods used for rapid reviews, as well as implications of methodological streamlining in terms of rigour, bias, and results.

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Ganann, R., Ciliska, D. & Thomas, H. Expediting systematic reviews: methods and implications of rapid reviews. Implementation Sci 5, 56 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-5-56
Meeting the review family: exploring review types and associated information retrieval requirements.
This study aims to characterise health related reviews by type and to provide recommendations on appropriate methods of information retrieval based on the available guidance.

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Sutton, A., Clowes, M., Preston, L., & Booth, A. (2019). Meeting the review family: exploring review types and associated information retrieval requirements. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 36(3), 202–222. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12276
A mixed-methods approach to systematic reviews
Joanna Briggs Institute's mixed-methods synthesis of the findings of the separate syntheses uses a Bayesian approach to translate the findings of the initial quantitative synthesis into qualitative themes and pooling these with the findings of the initial qualitative synthesis.

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Pearson, Alan AM, MSc, PhD, FCNA, FRCNA FAAN, FAAG1; White, Heath BSc1; Bath-Hextall, Fiona BSc(Hons) PhD2; Salmond, Susan BSN, MSN, EdD, FAAN3; Apostolo, Joao BSc4; Kirkpatrick, Pamela MA, BA, MSc5 A mixed-methods approach to systematic reviews, International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare: September 2015 - Volume 13 - Issue 3 - p 121-131 doi: 10.1097/XEB.0000000000000052
Mixed-Methods Systematic Reviews: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Findings
An article describing a mixed-methods systematic review.

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Harden A. Mixed-Methods Systematic Reviews: Integrating quantitative and qualitative findings. NCDDR:FOCUS. 2010.
Reviewing the animal literature: how to describe and choose between different types of literature reviews
An article describing the various types of literature reviews and how to select the proper one.

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Leenaars, C., Tsaioun, K., Stafleu, F., Rooney, K., Meijboom, F., Ritskes-Hoitinga, M., & Bleich, A. (2020). Reviewing the animal literature: how to describe and choose between different types of literature reviews. Laboratory Animals, 23677220968599. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023677220968599
Text‐in‐context: a method for extracting findings in mixed‐methods mixed research synthesis studies
Our purpose in this paper is to propose a new method for extracting findings from research reports included in mixed‐methods mixed research synthesis studies.

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Margarete, S., Jennifer, L., Kathleen, K., & Jamie L., C. (2013). Text-in-context: a method for extracting findings in mixed-methods mixed research synthesis studies. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 69(6), 1428–1437. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12000
A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies.
The expansion of evidence-based practice across sectors has lead to an increasing variety of review types. However, the diversity of terminology used means that the full potential of these review types may be lost amongst a confusion of indistinct and misapplied terms. The objective of this study is to provide descriptive insight into the most common types of reviews, with illustrative examples from health and health information domains.

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Grant, M. J. and Booth, A. (2009), A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 26: 91–108. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x

eBooks

The challenges and opportunities for incorporating gray literature in an integrative literature review by Lolita Alfred
ISBN: 9781529740844
Publication Date: 2020
Rapid reviews to strengthen health policy and systems: a practical guide by World Health Organization, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
ISBN: 9789241512763
Publication Date: 2017
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