"Distorted into clarity": A methodological case study illustrating the paradox of systematic review

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 454-465

  Sandelowski, Margarete ^a,d   Voils, Corrine I ^b   Barroso, Julie ^c   Lee, Eun Jeong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d #7460 Carrington Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

HIV positive women; Qualitative research synthesis; Quantitative research synthesis; Research methods; Research synthesis; Stigma; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF DISCLOSURE; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES; WOMEN;

EID: 52449097574     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20278     Document Type: Review

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