McDougall Rosalind
Bioethics. 2015 Sep;29(7):523-8. doi: 10.1111/bioe.12149. Epub 2015 Feb 6.
The recent interest in systematic review methods in bioethics has highlighted the need for greater transparency in all literature review processes undertaken in bioethics projects. In this article, I articulate features of a good bioethics literature review that does not aim to be systematic, but rather to capture and analyse the key ideas relevant to a research question. I call this a critical interpretive literature review. I begin by sketching and comparing three different types of literature review conducted in bioethics scholarship. Then, drawing on Dixon-Wood's concept of critical interpretive synthesis, I put forward six features of a good critical interpretive literature review in bioethics: answering a research question, capturing the key ideas relevant to the research question, analysing the literature as a whole, generating theory, not excluding papers based on rigid quality assessment criteria, and reporting the search strategy.
近期对生物伦理学中系统评价方法的关注凸显了在生物伦理学项目中进行的所有文献综述过程都需要更高的透明度。在本文中，我阐述了一种优秀的生物伦理学文献综述的特征，这种综述并非旨在做到系统全面，而是旨在捕捉和分析与研究问题相关的关键思想。我将其称为批判性解释性文献综述。我首先概述并比较了生物伦理学学术研究中进行的三种不同类型的文献综述。然后，借鉴迪克森 - 伍德的批判性解释性综合概念，我提出了生物伦理学中优秀的批判性解释性文献综述的六个特征：回答研究问题、捕捉与研究问题相关的关键思想、整体分析文献、生成理论、不基于严格的质量评估标准排除论文以及报告检索策略。
