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Social care research: a suitable case for systematic review?

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posted on 2023-06-08, 06:43 authored by Elaine SharlandElaine Sharland, Imogen Taylor
This article examines how systematic reviews might best address social care research. In the context of broader methodological debate, it draws on recent first-hand experience of undertaking systematic reviews in this field, to propose that research inclusion, quality assessment and synthesis should be guided by certain key characteristics of social care knowledge, research and practice. It explores the potential of the TAPUPAS framework, developed by Pawson and colleagues (2003) to address qualities of social care knowledges in general, for informing and moving forward our thinking about systematic reviews of social care research in particular.

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  • Published

Journal

Evidence and Policy

ISSN

1744-2648

Issue

4

Volume

2

Page range

503-523

Pages

21.0

Department affiliated with

  • Social Work and Social Care Publications

Notes

This jointly authored paper breaks new theoretical ground with its i) analysis of the application of EPPI systematic review methodology to social care; ii) innovative exploration of TAPUPAS (Pawson et al 2003) potential for appraising social care knowledge. It draws on the authors' experience of two systematic reviews, and rigorously examines the interdisciplinary methodological literature. The Editor commented, 'The paper is excellent... will make an important contribution to debate.' It has been disseminated widely: the International Conference on Evaluation for Practice, Huddersfield, 2005; Campbell Collaboration, 2007; International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Granada, 2007; Joint Social Work Education Conference, 2007.

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Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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