Different Types of Review Studies and Their Role in Promoting Nursing Knowledge: A Narrative Review

Due to the importance of review studies in obtaining, retrieving, reviewing, combining, analyzing, and integrating the results of original and fundamental studies to achieve the required knowledge, the present study was conducted to introduce the characteristics and application of various reviews methods and their role in promoting nursing knowledge.

To achieve the objectives of the study, the library research method was used. For this purpose, data were extracted and analyzed from PubMed, Google Scholar, Magiran, and SID.

Based on the results of studies, all review studies had a growing trend in recent years, and researchers realized its importance in advancing knowledge in the medical sciences. Among the types of review studies, 10 types of them were discussed more and their selection and characteristics were explained.

It was found that due to the increase in the volume and number of specialized information in todaychr('39')s world, knowledge and use of the results of review studies were highly effective in publishing the results of various studies and in evidence-based clinical decision-making. Moreover, considering that most studies in Iran are limited to systematic and meta-analysis methods, the present article introduced several other types of review studies to draw researcherschr('39') attention to the value of other review studies and their role in clinical decisions.