Combining adjusted and unadjusted findings in mixed research synthesis

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 429-434

  Voils, Corrine I ^a,d   Crandell, Jamie L ^b   Chang, Yunkyung ^c   Leeman, Jennifer ^c   Sandelowski, Margarete ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d HSRandD   (United States)

Author keywords

adjustment; confounding; meta analysis; qualitative research; quantitative research; research synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79956111849     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01444.x     Document Type: Article

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