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. 2017 Dec 12;6:253. doi: 10.1186/s13643-017-0653-x

Table 2.

Respondents’ opinions about literature reviews

Survey items Agree n (%) Neither agree nor disagree n (%) Disagree n (%) Don’t know n (%)
Narrative or critical/discursive literature reviews preceding clinical studies planned as part of a dissertation should be replaced with scoping reviews 16 (22.5%) 27 (38.0%) 19 (26.8%) 9 (12.7%)
Narrative or critical/discursive literature reviews preceding clinical studies planned as part of a dissertation should be replaced with systematic reviews 23 (32.4%) 24 (33.8%) 18 (25.4%) 6 (8.5%)
Narrative or critical/discursive literature reviews preceding basic studies planned as part of a dissertation should be replaced with scoping reviews 17 (23.9%) 26 (36.6%) 21 (29.6%) 7 (9.9%)
Narrative or critical/discursive literature reviews preceding basic studies planned as part of a dissertation should be replaced with systematic reviews 18 (25.4%) 25 (35.2%) 23 (32.4%) 5 (7.0%)