Making sense of qualitative and quantitative findings in mixed research synthesis studies

Field Methods

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-25

  Voils, Corrine I ^a   Sandelowski, Margarete ^b   Barroso, Julie ^c   Hasselblad, Victor ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiretroviral adherence; HIV AIDS; Qualitative research; Quantitative research; Research synthesis; Systematic review; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249137950     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X07307463     Document Type: Article

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