The destination of tourism is a major element in tourism marketing. Branding tourism destination is a process by which a tourism destination develops its focal features, develops and delivers its main audience, can build a reputation, establish its reputation, strengthen slowly or even change, which is important for tourism purposes. Brand recognition is very important for communicating success...

CONTEXT The findings of systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs) are used for clinical decision making. The European Association of Urology has committed increasing resources into the development of high quality clinical guidelines based on such SRs and MAs. OBJECTIVE In this paper, we have summarised the process of conducting SRs for underpinning clinical practice guidelines under th...

Meta-analyses should be analytic and deductive. In a review of the state of the science of meta-analysis in the previous volume of Epidemiologic Reviews, a list of definitions and synonyms of meta-analysis was given: "overview, pooling, data pooling, literature synthesis, data synthesis, quantitative synthesis, and quantitative review" (1, p. 154). Indeed, most metaanalyses are more synthetic t...

Developing and Validation of Intervention Program Based on Multiple Learning Systems for Students with Specific Reading Disabilities: Meta-Synthesis Study

BACKGROUND Participation of woman in decision-making processes is one of the key indicators of an appropriate relationship between a woman and the health care professionals. This study aimed to recognize the factors facilitating respect for woman's decision-making in spontaneous birth. MATERIALS AND METHODS This paper employed a meta-synthesis on articles published in four biomedical database...

Designing a Model of Professional Development Courses for Faculty Members Farhangian University with Flipped Learning Approach: A Meta-Synthesis Study

The present study seeks to identify and prioritize the components and dimensions of e-commerce and categorize them as a comprehensive model by using the meta-synthesis method. In this research, total of 58 articles in the field of E-commerce was identified and examined in the first step. Latin articles were in the period of 1996 to 2017 and Persian articles were related to the period of 2001 to...

A systematic review aims to synthesize all available individual studies on a certain topic and uses explicit and reproducible methods for searching the literature, while a meta-analysis is a mathematical synthesis of the results of these individual studies. Because of the explosion of information in the scientific literature, these study designs can be useful tools to summarize the knowledge on...