From: Hepatitis C, mental health and equity of access to antiviral therapy: a systematic narrative review
Greenhalgh et al.[17] | Adapted | |
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1 | Planning phase: assemble multidisciplinary team, establish regular meetings. | → Established multidisciplinary team. |
→ Held regular team meetings. | ||
2 | Search phase: initial search led by intuition, search for seminal papers, search for empirical papers. | → Systematic search of major electronic databases. |
→ Searched for seminal papers. | ||
3 | Mapping phase: identify key elements of research traditions, main findings. | → Identified key approaches to the problem of access to HCV antiviral therapy. |
→ Identified inconsistencies across approaches. | ||
4 | Appraisal phase: evaluation of each paper for relevance to the review question, extract key results, group comparable results; | → Evaluated each paper for relevance to the research question, extracted key results and categorized comparable areas. |
5 | Synthesis phase: identify all key dimensions of the problem, give a narrative account of each contribution, treat conflicting findings as higher order data and explain; | → Described each area with reference to included articles. |
→ Critically discussed the areas and inconsistencies across the articles. | ||
6 | Recommendations phase: summarise overall messages from the research literature, distil and discuss recommendations for practice, policy and further research. | → Summarised and distilled key messages from the literature. |
→ Made recommendations for developing clinical guidelines and health service policy. |