“Nowadays, systematic reviews have increasingly replaced
traditional narrative reviews and expert commentaries as a way of
summarising research evidence. Examination of quantitative and if
possible, with qualitative evidence or a mixed-method systematic reviews
are highly desired”.
The rigorous standardized methodology for conducting a SLR that has
developed from the health sciences and other fields is virtually unknown
in IS research (Okoli & Schabram, 2010). However, more and more
healthcare services now heavily rely on IS for improved delivery. For
example, the increased use of digital health to support evidence-based
practice (Agarwal, Gao, DesRoches, & Jha, 2011) and to better generate
evidence and deliver evidence-based care.
Evidence-based Research in IS – the like of Medical Research
We expounded the themes used by when comparing medical research and
management research