Format for Writing a Literature Review with Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources

This format can be used when all of your literature sources are a mixture of primary, secondary and tertiary sources.
Author/s (year)
Country
Aims
or
Purpose
Sample/ setting
or
Key stake-holders and
their roles
Design/ methods
or
Type of paper
Main findings
or
Primary argument
Strengths and
limitations of the
paper
Article 1 Haines et al. (2011)
Australia
To ascertain the
effectiveness of
patient education in
preventing falls in
older adults in
hospitals
Sample = 1206
Participants
Who was in the study
Setting = old inpatient
adults with previous
experience in fall
Where the study took
place: the study took
place in two Australian
hospitals
Design = RCT
Quantitative
Methods = RCT
No significant
difference between
groups in the rates
of falls per 1000
patient days
There was
significant
association between
intervention and
existence of
cognitive
impairment.
Multimedia patient
education reduce the
number of falls
The study is the first
to examine the
effectiveness of two
interventions leading
to further
identification of
significant elements.
The study also relies
on first hand data
and not on hospital
reports as commonly
the case. This
improves the
reliability of the
outcomes.
The hospital staff
involved in the RCT
were not blinded
thus increasing
chances of biasness
Article 2 Calhoun et al. To examine the Sample = 20 elderly Design =in-depth No significant Sample is inclusive