Background: Healthcare delivery is largely accomplished in and through conversations between people, and healthcare quality and effectiveness depend enormously upon the communication practices employed within these conversations. An important body of evidence about these practices has been generated by conversation analysis and related discourse analytic approaches, but there has been very litt...

BACKGROUND Healthcare delivery is largely accomplished in and through conversations between people, and healthcare quality and effectiveness depend enormously upon the communication practices employed within these conversations. An important body of evidence about these practices has been generated by conversation analysis and related discourse analytic approaches, but there has been very littl...

Evidence-based medicine seeks to base clinical decisions on the best currently available scientific evidence and is becoming accepted practice. A key role is played by systematic reviews, which synthesize the biomedical literature and rely on different information retrieval methods to identify a comprehensive set of relevant studies. With Boolean retrieval, the primary retrieval method in this ...

An important task in conducting a systematic review is reading titles and abstracts of the retrieved references, which often number in the thousands, to determine which articles meet the predefined inclusion criteria. In the past, this was performed by manually scanning through large stacks of printed titles and abstracts, followed by face-to-face meetings to discuss which references should be ...

Abstract Systematic literature review articles are important for synthesizing knowledge in management and business research. However, to date, we lack clear guidelines how such articles. This editorial takes the perspective of reviewer. It presents ten key questions criteria that reviewers should ask when reviewing systematic reviews.