How to assess rigour... or not in qualitative papers

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 912-913

  Sale, Joanna E M ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical appraisal; Qualitative methods; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNOGRAPHY; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; NARRATION; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; POSTMODERNISM; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 55349090690     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.01093.x     Document Type: Article

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