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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
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 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

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