Description:

This Master Prompt would focus on developing a transparent and defensible strategy for identifying literature for a narrative review. It would guide researchers in selecting databases and complementary information sources, developing search concepts and keywords, establishing publication and language boundaries, applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, using citation chaining or snowball searching where appropriate, and documenting the evidence-selection process.

A major emphasis would be placed on balancing the methodological flexibility of narrative review with sufficient transparency to reduce arbitrary or selective source inclusion. Researchers would determine when a broad narrative search is sufficient and when a structured, systematic, or PRISMA-informed search is justified. The uploaded studies demonstrate approaches ranging from database searches followed by relevance-based selection and snowball sampling to structured multi-database searches with explicit screening procedures.