Comprehensive Systematic Review for Advanced Practice Nursing, Second Edition

by Cheryl Holly (Editor), Susan Salmond (Editor), Maria Saimbert (Editor)

First Edition a 2013 Doody‚ Core Title and AJN Book of the Year Award Winner!

This text provides top-tier guidance for DNP students, graduate faculty, APRNs, and other health care providers on how to use available research for improving patient outcomes and reducing costs. It is the only resource written expressly to meet the objectives of DNP courses. This second edition is completely updated and features three new approaches umbrella reviews, mixed-method reviews, and other types of reviews for seeking, synthesizing, and interpreting available evidence to improve the delivery of patient care. The text also includes two new examples of completed systematic reviews and two completed proposals.

The book presents, clearly and comprehensively, the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct a foundational comprehensive systematic review (CSR). It encompasses the complexities of the entire process, from asking clinical questions to getting the evidence into practice. The text includes question-specific methods and analysis and compares CSR methods, literature reviews, integrated reviews, and meta-studies. It describes how to find and appraise relevant studies, including the non-published grey literature and criteria for selecting or excluding studies, and describes how to use the results in practice. Also examined are ways to disemminate findings to benefit clinical practice and support best practices, and how to write a CSR proposal, final report, and a policy brief based on systematic review findings. Plentiful examples, including two completed proposals and two completed systematic reviews, demonstrate every step of the process. An expanded resource chapter that can serve as a toolkit for conducting a systematic review is also provided. The text covers useful software and includes objectives, summary points, end-of-chapter exercises, suggested reading, and references.

NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION:
Three new chapters presenting new systematic review approaches: umbrella reviews, mixed-method reviews, and other types of reviews including rapid and scoping reviews and reviews of text and opinion
Two new examples of completed systematic reviews
Completely updated content throughout
Detailed information to foster systematic review research question development, efficient literature searches, and management of references

KEY FEATURES:
Delivers the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct a CSR from start to finish
Serves as the only CSR resource written expressly for the APRN
Describes useful software for conducting a systematic review
Provides rich examples including two completed CSRs
Includes objectives, summary points, end-of-chapter exercises, suggested reading, and references
Accompanied by a comprehensive toolkit of resources for completing a systematic review

About the Author
Cheryl Holly, EdD, RN, ANEF, FNAP, is professor, associate dean, and co-director of the Northeast Institute of Evidence Synthesis and Translation at Rutgers School of Nursing, a Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Center of Excellence. She teaches DNP program courses in population health and implementation science, as well as works with DNP students in their capstone residency course and with BS honors students. Dr. Holly holds a BS in Nursing from Pace University, Leinhard School of Nursing, Pleasantville, New York; both an MEd in Adult Health and Physical Illness and an EdD in Research and Evaluation in Curriculum/Teaching from Columbia University. In addition, Dr. Holly has completed postgraduate work in Comprehensive Meta-Analysis and Advanced Meta-Analysis in the Statistics Institute. Among many other positions held, Dr. Holly previously was director of Nursing Research and Informatics at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City, senior vice president of Quality Clinical Resource Management at the Westchester Medical Center, and associate dean, Columbia University School of Nursing. She is certified as a train-the-trainer in a comprehensive systematic review conducted by the JBI and has offered workshops on comprehensive systematic reviews across the United States. Dr. Holly is the coordinator of the Eastern Nursing Research Society's Research Interest Group on Comprehensive Systematic Review and Knowledge Translation, and she is a member of the Committee of Directors of the JBI of Nursing and Midwifery, the Evidence Translation Group, the Cochrane Nursing Care Field, the Cochrane Injuries Group, and the JBI Scientific Methodology Group on Umbrella Reviews. She serves as manuscript reviewer for several journals, including Nursing Outlook, Nursing Education Perspectives, American Journal of Nursing, and The International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare. She is also a founding member of the Implementation Science and Synthesis Network of the United States. Dr. Holly has been principal or co-principal investigator or project director of 10 funded research projects. She has published extensively and presented both nationally and internationally in the areas of evidence-based practice (EBP), systematic review (SR), knowledge translation, and critical care nursing. She is a fellow in the Academy of Nursing Education.