Characteristics of qualitative studies in influential journals of general medicine: A critical review

BioScience Trends

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 202-209

  Yamazaki, Hiroshi ^a   Slingsby, Brian Taylor ^b   Takahashi, Miyako ^a   Hayashi, Yoko ^c   Sugimori, Hiroki ^d   Nakayama, Takeo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DAITO BUNKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data collection analysis methods; General medicine; Qualitative study

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 77952524617     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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