Still too little qualitative research to shed light on results from reviews of effectiveness trials: A case study of a Cochrane review on the use of lay health workers

Implementation Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Glenton, Claire ^a   Lewin, Simon ^b,c   Scheel, Inger B ^a  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LITERATURE; MATERNAL WELFARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MATERNAL WELFARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 79957441060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-6-53     Document Type: Article

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