Writing narrative style literature reviews
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Reviews provide a synthesis of published literature on a topic and describe its current state-of-art. Reviews in clinical research are thus useful when designing studies or developing practice guidelines. The two standard types of reviews are (a) systematic and (b) non-systematic or narrative review. Unlike systematic reviews that benefit from guidelines such as PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) statement, there are no acknowledged guidelines for narrative reviews. I have attempted to define the best practice recommendations for the preparation of a narrative review in clinical research. The quality of a narrative review may be improved by borrowing from the systematic review methodologies that are aimed at reducing bias in the selection of articles for review and employing an effective bibliographic research strategy. The dynamics of narrative review writing, the organizational pattern of the text, the analysis, and the synthesis processes are also discussed.
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The review followed PRISMA guidelines and conducted a systematic search and narrative synthesis.
“Following preferred reporting for systematic reviews guidelines (PRISMA) (Page et al., 2020), we conducted a systematic search and narrative synthesis (Ferrari, 2015).”
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Due to methodological heterogeneity, all data were combined through a narrative synthesis.
“Due to methodological heterogeneity, we combined all data through a narrative synthesis, a dynamic process consisting data extraction and visualisation, description and interpretation (Ferrari, 2015).”
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The narrative review was conducted following international guidelines for writing narrative reviews.
“We conducted a narrative review of literature following international guidelines for writing narrative reviews [20, 21].”
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- Authors
- Ferrari, R.
- Corresponding author
- Ferrari, Rossella
- Venue
- Medical Writing
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-12
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 230-235
- ISSN
- 2047-4806 (ISSN-L)
- 2047-4814
- OpenAlex
- W2239104709
- Cited by
- 1,907
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 462 · 2025: 327 · 2024: 273 · 2023: 212 · 2022: 214 · 2021: 175 · 2020: 122 · 2019: 65 · 2018: 43 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 16.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Medical Writing (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Sciences Research and Education
- Keywords
- literature review writing, clinical research, best practice recommendations, systematic reviews, text structure
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