Evidence-Based Practice and Medical Education

Contents include:
The multiple purposes of a literature review
Sources of information and conducting searches
Reading and note taking strategies
Reference management: keeping records and organizing information
Bibliographical software packages
Structuring the literature review
In-text citations
Being critical
Foregrounding writer voice
The continuing process.

Structuring a research report -- Writing simple research hypotheses -- A closer look at hypotheses -- Writing research objectives and questions -- Writing titles -- Writing introductions and literature reviews -- Writing definitions -- Writing assumptions, limitations, and delimitations -- Writing method sections -- Describing experimental methods -- Writing analysis and results sections -- Writing discussion sections -- Writing abstracts -- A closer look at writing reports of qualitative research -- Preparing references lists -- References -- Appendix A. Checklist of guidelines -- Appendix B. Thinking straight and writing that way -- Appendix C. The null hypothesis and significance testing.

Contents
Why do a literature review in health and social care?
What literature will be relevant to my literature review?
How do I develop a research question?
How do I search for literature?
How do I critically appraise the literature?
How do I sythesise my findings?
How do I discuss my findings and make recommendations?
How do I present my literature review?
Commonly asked questions