June 2023 issue of JBI Evidence Synthesis released
Volume 21 – Issue 6
The June issue of JBI Evidence Synthesis is now available, featuring a qualitative systematic review, Pregnant and postnatal women's experiences of interacting with health care providers about their tobacco smoking, and scoping review, Prehabilitation before elective coronary artery bypass grafting surgery
The featured qualitative systematic review is accompanied by a free access JBI Best Practice Information Sheet (BPIS). The BPIS provides findings and conclusions of the review, as well as the recommendations for practice in a succinct and easy-to-read format.
Lead author of the qualitative systematic review, Dr Sandra Small, reflects on the critical appraisal process for the review in the editorial, Reflections on critical appraisal of research for qualitative evidence synthesis
Critical appraisal of qualitative research is a complex issue, and making decisions about inclusion of studies in qualitative syntheses on the basis of study quality is a difficult and challenging process.
The Editorial in Motion summarises the key points from the editorial in a short video, available in the journal's playlist on YouTube.
A number of protocols are published in this issue, including:
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To see the full table of contents, go to the June issue of JBI Evidence Synthesis