ASLS 615 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Effect Size, Grey Literature, Systematic Review
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Advance organizer: definitions, rationale, the review and analysis process, the top 10 things slps should know about systematic reviews. The application of strategies that limit bias in the assembly, critical appraisal, and synthesis of all relevant studies on a specific topic: meta-analysis: The statistical synthesis of the data from separate but similar, i. e. comparable studies, leading to a quantitative summary of the pooled results. How is a systematic review different from a narrative review: narrative review (literature review) Easily accessible databases commonly searched ignoring unpublished or grey literature. Positive results published more often than those with neutral or negative results: systematic review. Uses clearly defined searches that can be easily replicated. A more rigorous alternative: a systematic review differs from a traditional narrative review in that its methods are explicit and open to scrutiny. It seeks to identify all the available evidence with respect to a given theme.