Three techniques for integrating data in mixed methods studies

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 341, Issue 7783, 2010, Pages 1147-1150

  O'Cathain, Alicia ^a   Murphy, Elizabeth ^b   Nicholl, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 78649596720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c4587     Document Type: Article

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