Table 1 Taxonomy of literature review according to Cooper [14]
Characteristic | Category | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
Focus | Research outcomes | Focus on studies reporting on outcomes of community pharmacy-led interventions |
Goal | Identification of central issues, integration/generalisation | Identify priority areas of community pharmacy-led interventions, synthesise the available evidence, identify potential improvements to the interventions |
Perspective | Neutral representation | Research outcomes are presented in the same format as in the original studies |
Coverage | Representative | A sample of studies is selected to represent the current body of research on the topic |
Organisation | Conceptual | Articles relating to the same priority area are presented together |
Audience | Healthcare researchers, practitioners, policy makers | Informing different stakeholders about available evidence on pharmacy-led interventions, but also about the current gap in science and practice |