Appraising qualitative research articles in medicine and medical education

Medical Teacher

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-75

  Côté, Luc ^a   Turgeon, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; PHENOMENOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PERIODICALS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 17144376342     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590400016308     Document Type: Article

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