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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807669903321

Titolo

Synthesizing qualitative research : choosing the right approach / / edited by Karin Hannes, Craig Lockwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons/BMJ, 2011

ISBN

1-283-29532-6

9786613295323

1-119-95984-5

1-119-95981-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HannesKarin

LockwoodCraig <1971->

Disciplina

610.72/1

Soggetti

Qualitative research

Medicine - Research - Methodology

Biology - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Synthesizing Qualitative Research: Choosing the Right Approach; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: "It looks great but how do I know if it fits?": an introduction to meta-synthesis research; Chapter 2: Obstacles to the implementation of evidence-based practice in Belgium: a worked example of meta-aggregation; Chapter 3: Medicine taking for asthma: a worked example of meta-ethnography; Chapter 4: The use of morphine to treat cancer related pain: a worked example of critical interpretive synthesis

Chapter 5: The Internet in medical education: a worked example of a realist reviewChapter 6: Mixed methods synthesis: a worked example; Chapter 7: Bayesian approaches to the synthesis of qualitative and quantitative research findings; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A considerable number of journal publications using a range of qualitative synthesis approaches has been published. Mary Dixon-Woods and colleagues (Mary Dixon-Woods, Booth, & Sutton, 2007) identified 42 qualitative evidence synthesis papers published in health



care literature between 1990 and 2004. An ongoing update by Hannes and Macaitis (2010)identified around 100 additional qualitative or mixed methods syntheses. Yet these generally lack a clear, detailed description of what was done and why (Greenhalgh et al, 2007; McInnes & Wimpenny, 2008). Choices are most commonly influenced by what others have successfully used in the past or by a particular school of thought (Atkins et al, 2008; Britten et al, 2002). This is a substantive limitation. This book brings balance to the options available to researchers, including approaches that have not had a substantial uptake among researchers. It provides arguments for when and why researchers or other parties of interest should opt for a certain approach to synthesis, which challenges they might face in adopting it and what the potential strengths and weaknesses are compared with other approaches. This book acts as a resource for readers who would otherwise have to piece together the methodology from a range of journal articles. In addition, it should stimulate further development and documentation of synthesis methodology in a field that is characterized by diversity.