A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and

associated methodologies

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From: Evidence based health (EBH) [mailto:EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Nockels, Keith H.
Sent: 31. siječnja 2018. 10:45
To: EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Systematic reviews of case reports

 

Dear All,

 

I am a health librarian, working with a hospital consultant who wants to do a systematic review.   But most, if not all, of the literature on her topic, is reports of a case or of several cases.

 

 

My question is: is it possible to conduct a systematic review of case reports?   

 

If you have done this, is there anything special we should know about how to do it?   I have increasing experience of working on systematic reviews but not come across this question before.

 

If there is a more appropriate review type that we should use, I would be interested to have details.

 

I have found papers that talk about "aggregating case reports” and a “collective analysis” of case reports, but not sure they give details of methods.

 

 

Thanks for your help,

 

Best wishes,

 

 

 

 

 

Keith 

 

 

 

 

Keith Nockels MA (Hons) Dip. Lib. MCLIP FHEA 
Learning and Teaching Services Librarian (College of Life Sciences)

 

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