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Systematic Reviews

Assessing, Analysis and Synthesis

Summary vs. Analysis and Synthesis

In a systematic review, the goal is to do more than summarize findings from identified articles. The goal will be to synthesize the information.

While a summary is a way of concisely relating important themes and elements from a larger work or works in a condensed form, a synthesis takes the information from a variety of works and combines them together to create something new.