Revisões da literatura científica: tipos, métodos e aplicações em enfermagem

Luís Manuel Mota De Sousa; Cristiana Furtado Firmino; Cristina Maria Alves Marques-Vieira; Sandy Silva Pedro Severino; Helena Castelão Figueira Carlos Pestana

doi:10.33194/rper.2018.v1.n1.07.4391

Authors

Luís Manuel Mota De Sousa Hospital Curry Cabral, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Central; Escola Superior de Saúde Atlântica https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9708-5690
Cristiana Furtado Firmino Escola Superior de Saúde Atlântica; Hospital CUF Infante Santo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0328-7804
Cristina Maria Alves Marques-Vieira Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, da Universidade Católica Portuguesa; Investigadora do Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar da Saúde da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Sandy Silva Pedro Severino Escola Superior de Saúde Atlântica. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5162-2980
Helena Castelão Figueira Carlos Pestana Escola Superior de Saúde Atlântica https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7804-2989

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33194/rper.2018.v1.n1.07.4391

Keywords:

metaanalysis; evidence-based medicine; review literature as subject; methodology; rehabilitation nursing

Abstract

Introduction: The interest of nursing in the methodology of systematic review of the literature has been increasing, since it constitutes a method that allows a practice based on scientific evidence with scientific rigor.

Objective: To characterize the different types of literature review and to describe the main steps of a systematic review of the literature

Material and methods: Narrative review of the literature. Database search on the following platforms: Google Academic, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), EBSCO Host, and Virtual Health Library (VHL). Keywords: meta-analysis; evidence-based medicine; review literature as topic; methodology, in the English and Portuguese languages.

Results: fourteen types of reviews were described and analyzed according to the type of research, evaluation of the methodological quality of the articles included, synthesis of the information collected and global analysis of the data.
The advantages and disadvantages of each type and the main steps of a systematic review of the literature were presented.

Conclusions: A systematic review of the literature is the foundation for evidence-based practice, since it aggregates a large amount of information in a single study.