Conducting Your Literature Review

Susanne Hempel, PhD, is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She is the co-director of the Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center, leading contracts for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). She carries out systematic reviews in healthcare research and methodological projects aiming to improve evidence syntheses. Hempel teaches systematic review methodology and applied psychometrics. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.

• Series ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter : What to Achieve: Clarifying the Goal of Your Literature ReviewChapter 2: Where to Look: Choosing Databases and Other Sources of LiteratureChapter 3: How to Look: Developing Search StrategiesChapter 4: What to Look For: Deciding What Literature to IncludeChapter 5: How to Organize: Managing Your MaterialChapter : How to Abstract: Extracting Key Information From the LiteratureChapter 7: How to Assess: Critically Appraising Your MaterialChapter 8: How to Synthesize: Determining What to Say About the LiteratureChapter 9: How to Document: Writing Up Your Literature Review Further ReadingIndexAbout the AuthorAbout the Series Editor