Nancy K. Lowe, Editor Reviews of the literature play an important role in the advancement of nursing and biomedical science by combining the results of systematically chosen studies to come to conclusions about a body of research. The research literature on most topics pertinent to the care of women, infants, and their families is broad and interdisciplinary in origin and focus. The evolution o...

Eisen, M.L., Oustinovskaya, M., Kistorian, R., Morgan, D.Y., & Mickes, L. (2008). The effect of question format on resistance to misleading postevent information and self-reports of events occurring during hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(2):198-213. The authors present this article about how hypnosis affects memory recall and memory reporting. The autho...

all clinical decisions and research essentially begins with the review of pre-existing literature. it helps to make our clinical decisions based on an overview of all the literature concerning the particular clinical problem. this requires a lot of time and effort, which is becoming scarce in this day and age. literature reviews shorten the time by offering relevant evidence in a concise form. ...

Most scholars would probably agree that literature reviews are key building blocks of good research articles in Library and Information science (LIS). Yet current practices in conducting these reviews may not necessarily be conducive to innovative research because they emphasize the science of the process rather than the art. At the beginning of the 21st century, the act of doing a literature r...