How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)

British Medical Journal

Volumn 315, Issue 7110, 1997, Pages 740-743

  Greenhalgh, Trisha ^a   Taylor, Rod ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTATISTICS; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SHORT SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0031580635     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.740     Document Type: Short Survey

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