University Capstone: Systematic Review in Healthcare Administration

This assignment, a capstone project in Healthcare Administration, delves into the process of conducting a systematic literature review and its subsequent publication. The student reflects on their understanding of the systematic review process, including article selection, objective development, and skill enhancement. The paper outlines the essential elements of a systematic review, such as introduction, objectives, methodology, search strategies, quality assessment, and data synthesis (meta-analysis). It also discusses the practical steps involved in the capstone project, from formulating research questions and search strategies to selecting publication sources and navigating the review process. The assignment further addresses potential publication sources, eligibility criteria (including language, referencing, and originality), and the estimated timeline for publication, which can range from six months to two years. Overall, the assignment showcases a comprehensive understanding of the systematic review methodology and its application within the context of a healthcare administration capstone project.

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CAPSTONE IN HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Q1. After learning the process of the systematic literature review the factor of the
development of a paper has been understood. The process of the paper development would
require knowledge and skills. The selection of articles and the proper understanding of the
articles require the skills mostly. The factor of the objective development regarding the
usefulness of the topic would be required as well. Based on the module the knowledge about
these process have been developed properly. Moreover, this learning helped in the skill set
development and also changed the level of interest in publishing and developing a systematic
review paper. The factor of developing a paper is challenging but also helps in learning many
things. The factor of the knowledge development and creating some important statistical data
and idea about the topic would be provided into common good as well. Hence, the level of
interest for the development of a systematic review paper developed in positive way
(Bettany-Saltikov, 2012).
Q2. A systematic review is commonly comprised with a number of elements. The elements
included with a succinct introduction or background of the study, proper objective that states
the reason of the search and eligibility criteria for the selected studies, an adequate
methodology that depicts the process of the search and strategies as well, based on the
strategy an attempt of the search and also proper understanding of the studies, assessment of
the quality and the validity of the selected studies and finally the proper presentation of the of
the systematic review and synthesised approach of the study recordings. Hence, all these
components are required for the development of a proper systematic review paper and all
these are found commonly in a systematic review study. Based on this searching, analysing
and statistical data collection that is the meta-analysis also would be done. The factor of the
meta-analysis is also common in the systematic review papers (Mileski et al., 2018).
Q3. The capstone would be synthesised and the topic related research questioned should be
developed along with proper objective. The factor of the objective and the research question

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should be relevant and also effectively focusing on some useful context. Based on the
research question the search strategy and the literature search process would be done. Proper
selection of literature and also developing proper understanding of the selected articles would
be done and the recording of the understanding a synthesised way should be developed as
well. After the systematic review paper completed the publication source should be selected
and also the review process would be commenced (Mileski et al., 2017). Now after the
selection of the article by examining all the requirements in the article it would be published
as well. However, the review and the eligibility finding would be able to reject the article
based on the quality of the article.
Q4. Possible publication sources for systematic review papers can be referred as the non-
commercial electronic databases where the journals are published. The factor of eligibility for
the publication required to be properly structured, full text article, English language use,
proper referencing and elimination of any copy right issues. Moreover, the eligibility lies
under the authors’ expertise that is the article should be developed by one or more authors of
the same discipline. Other this the factor of the eligibility of a systematic literature paper
depends on originality, effectiveness of the topic and also conclusion relevancy of the
findings. Hence, the publication of a systematic literature review article depends on the
presentation and proper findings as well. The process of the development of an eligible
systematic literature review paper the paper should be focused on a specific topic that helps
in the proper knowledge development on selected topic as well (Mileski et al., 2017).
Q5. A systematic review publication can take up to two years from six months. The process
of the topic selection, research question development, based on research question objective
and search strategy development, development of keyword for article or literature search,
searching the articles, understanding the articles and develop a succinct knowledge from the
articles, recording those knowledge, developing the conclusion based on the data and the

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knowledge found by the systematic literature review (Mileski et al., 2017). After all these the
article publication process starts the publication source reviews the article by reviewers and
based on the result of the review process the article would be selected for the publication.
Hence, this process can be termed as a long process and there are many steps for the
publication as well. Thus the process of the publication can take a total of seven to twelve
months in common situations.

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References
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