“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