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LITERATURE REVIEW
Ari Probandari
TB Operations Research Workshop
May 22, 2012
Learning objective
In the end of the session, participants should be able:
To describe the reasons for reviewing available literatures
to be used in the study protocol.
To describe steps in the literature review.
To exercise literature search and management.
To identify important literatures for the study protocol
development.
already
Find out what others have learned and reported, in order
to refine problem statement
Familiarize with various relevant research approaches
Provide convincing arguments why your particular study is
needed
Literatures sources
Articles (journals, magazine, newspaper)
Books
Grey literatures
Conference proceedings and presentations
Reports
Dissertation/thesis
Websites
Personal communication
patients?
Are there other studies on the use of mobile phones in
improving treatment compliance of TB patients?
What are the causes of MDR-TB?
Searching literature
http://google.co.id/
http://scholar.google.co.id/
Searching literature
Skimming literature
Publication type
Peer-review:
Original article
IMRaD structure
Study type: e.g. intervention studies
Review
Policy and practice
Date
Language
Appraising literature
Does the literature address your search
question?
Does the literature contain trustable
important aspects?
Indexing literatures
Author(s) Surname followed by initials. Title of article. Name of
Indexing
Indexing
Mendeley
http://www.mendeley.com/features/
http://www.mendeley.com/videos-tutorials/
analysis.
Write a coherent discussion in your own words, using all
relevant literature linked to each other.
Write in a referencing system (Harvard/Vancouver) use
a bibliography software when possible.
Example
Evaluations among various PPM DOTS pilot projects in
many high-TB-burden countries showed that the PPM
DOTS approach was feasible to scale-up (WHO 2003a;
WHO, 2004a) because it gave high treatment success and
case notification (Newell et al., 2004; Kumar et al., 2005;
Dewan et al., 2006). Moreover, the PPM DOTS involving
private practitioners has been shown to be cost-effective
(WHO, 2004b, Floyd et al., 2006) and improve equity in
access (Lnnroth et al., 2007).
Probandari A. (2010). Revisiting the choice to involve hospitals in the
partnership for tuberculosis control. Umea University Sweden. Dissertation.