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Developing methods for systematic reviewing in health services delivery and organization: an example from a review of access to health care for people with learning disabilities — Part 2: Evaluation of the literature - a practical guide
Author(s)	Alison Alborz, Rosalind McNally
Journal title	Health Information and Libraries Journal, vol 21, no 4, December 2004
Pages	pp 227-236
Source	http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/hir
Keywords	Cognitive impairment ; Health services ; Usage [services] ; Accessibility ; Methodology.
Annotation	The application of a consistent structure to quality evaluation can facilitate data appraisal, extraction and synthesis across a range of methodologies in diffuse or "soft" topics. Synthesis can be facilitated further by using software such as the Microsoft Access database, for managing information. Following on from Part 1 of this article (September 2004), 82 studies on access to health care were fully evaluated. Five studies were rated "highly rigorous", 22 "rigorous", 46 "less rigorous", and 9 "poor" papers were retained as the sole evidence covering aspects of the guiding model. The majority of studies were quantitative but used only descriptive statistics. Most evidence lacked methodological detail, which often lowered final quality ratings. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-050117209 A
Classmark	E4: L: QLD: 5CA: 3D
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