Skip to Main Content

Biomedical Literature Reviews and Research: Books

Selected resources for researchers performing systematic or non-systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses.

Finding additional books

This page contains a selected listing of eBooks to help with performing a literature review and data analysis. Additional print and electronic texts can be found in the Library Catalog. Contact us for assistance by calling the Information Desk at (615) 936-1410 or our Ask a Librarian form.

Literature Reviews

Anatomy of Writing for Publication for Nurses by Cynthia Saver
Publication Date: 2017
Applied Meta-Analysis for Social Science Research by Noel Card
Publication Date: 2011
Comprehensive Systematic Review for Advanced Nursing Practice by Cheryl Holly
Publication Date: 2011
Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care, 3rd ed. by Helen Aveyard
Publication Date: 2014
The Handbook of Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis, 2nd ed. by Harris Cooper
Publication Date: 2009
How to Do a Systematic Literature Review in Nursing by Josette Bettany-Saltikov
Publication Date: 2016
Introduction to Meta-Analysis by Michael Borenstein
Publication Date: 2009
Publishing Your Medical Research by Daniel W. Byrne
Publication Date: 2017
Reviewing Research Evidence for Nursing Practice by Christine Webb
Publication Date: 2008
Systematic Reviews to Support Evidence-Based Medicine, 2nd ed. by Khalid Khan
Publication Date: 2011

Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Basic & Clinical Biostatistics, 4th ed. by Beth Dawson
Publication Date: 2004
Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials, 4th ed. by Geoffrey Norman
Publication Date: 2014
Biostatistics for Dummies by John Pezzullo
Publication Date: 2013
Clinical Epidemiology by Patrick Parfrey
Publication Date: 2015
Epidemiology, 5th ed. by Leon Gordis
Publication Date: 2013
Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health, 4th Edition by David Katz
Publication Date: 2014
Medical Epidemiology, 5th ed. by Raymond Greenberg
Publication Date: 2015

Statistical Software

Biostatistics and Computer-Based Analysis of Health Data Using Stata by Christophe Lalanne
Publication Date: 2016
Biostatistics for Epidemiology and Public Health Using R by Bertram Chan
Publication Date: 2015
Biostatistics in Public Health Using Stata by Erick Suarez Perez
Publication Date: 2016
C++ for Dummies by Stephen Davis
Publication Date: 2014
Medical Statistics: a guide to SPSS, data analysis, and critical appraisal, 2nd ed. by Belinda Barton
Publication Date: 2014
R for Data Science by Dan Toomey
Publication Date: 2014
R for Dummies by Andrie de Vries
Publication Date: 2015
SAS Essentials: mastering SAS for data analytics, 2nd ed. by Alan Elliott.
Publication Date: 2016

Last Updated: Apr 19, 2024 11:27 AM
URL: https://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/biomedresearch
Print Page

Subjects: Biomedical/Health Sciences, Business: Health Care Management, Medicine, Health and Society, Nursing, Psychology

Creative Commons License

VU Libraries ResearchGuides is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You may republish or adapt this guide for educational purposes, as long as proper credit is given. Our recommended credit includes the statement: Written by, or adapted from, Vanderbilt University Libraries (current as of .....). If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.