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Medical Literature Reviews: A Whole Lot of Needed Reading!
Medical literature reviews: what to write about?
In simple terms, a medical literature review, as well as any other literature review in a research paper, is the account on what has already been done and what needs to be done now. Thus, when you start writing a medical literature review, be sure to include the data about:
- Whether your topic was researched before;
- Who researched the topic and what were the findings;
- What the limitations are for the previous findings;
- What other scholars wanted new researchers to study;
- How your topic is placed in the framework of existing and necessary data.
Medical literature reviews: where do I search for data?
Data that you should present in your medical literature review should be precise and actual (meaning that you cannot invent anything just because you were lazy to consult a journal or a book on your topic). So, you had better look for reputable data for your medical literature review in:
- Peer reviewed journals;
- Professional journals;
- Books;
- Professional magazines;
- Dissertations and conference papers;
- Newspapers;
- Reputable web sites.
Medical literature reviews: how do I format it?
Finally, you need to know how the information you have should be organized. Thus, in your medical literature review you should first state what this section of your work is about and why you write it. Then you move on to the specific topic and discuss what other scholars said about it in the books or articles. Finally, your medical literature review states what the previous research did not pay attention to and claim to fill in this gap. This is all. Simple, isn’t it?