Time to challenge the spurious hierarchy of systematic over narrative reviews?

Systematic reviews are generally placed above narrative reviews in an assumed hierarchy of secondary research evidence. We argue that systematic reviews and narrative reviews serve different purposes and should be viewed as complementary. Conventional systematic reviews address narrowly focused questions; their key contribution is summarising data. Narrative reviews provide interpretation and critique; their key contribution is deepening understanding. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  European Journal of Clinical Investigation

• Publication date

  2018-04-16

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/eci.12931PMID 29578574PMCID 6001568
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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