In 2010, Danielle Levac and colleagues highlighted that despite the increasing popularity of
scoping reviews across a number of fields of enquiry including health research, a universally …

Objectives Although there is increasing interest in the evaluation of complex interventions,
there is little guidance on how evidence from complex interventions may be reviewed and …

Cochrane systematic reviews have proven to be beneficial for decision making processes,
both on a practitioner and a policy level, and there are current initiatives to extend the types …

In this paper we discuss mixing methods at the level of reviews of research, combining the
findings of multiple, already existing, studies that are labelled broadly as using either …

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Sampling in qualitative research: Insights from an overview of the methods literature Page 1
Sampling in qualitative research: Insights from an overview of the methods literature Gentles …

A systematic review involves the identification, evaluation, and synthesis of the best-
available evidence to provide an answer to a specific question. The “best-available …

Background The importance of findings derived from syntheses of qualitative research has
been increasingly acknowledged. Findings that arise from qualitative syntheses inform …

This chapter covers methods for keeping abreast of the accumulating evidence to help a
review team understand when a systematic review might need updating. This includes the …

Feasibility studies are increasingly undertaken in preparation for randomised controlled
trials in order to explore uncertainties and enable trialists to optimise the intervention or the …