Synthesis -- Systematic reviews, meta-analyses

The main purpose of literature reviews is to identify the main findings of each study individually?

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Review articles attempt to synthesize results of several original research articles.

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"Traditional" (narrative) reviews use explicit methods to selected articles and screen articles to review.

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Meta-analyses combine and analyze results from various studies to arrive at overall results.

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Mini narrative reviews are provided in the Introductory section of research articles.

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Systematic reviews explicitly identify criteria used to include and exclude an original research study in the review.

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A strength of systematic reviews is that they include unpublished studies that contain non-significant results.

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Meta-analyses often include "Forest plots" to depict effect sizes and confidence intervals.

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Traditional reviews essentially tell a "story" that describes the overall results of the research studies reviewed.

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When the number of reviews studies on a particular topic becomes large, some research team might decide to undertake a "review of reviews".

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