Pragmatism as the philosophical foundation for the Joanna Briggs meta-aggregative approach to qualitative evidence synthesis

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1632-1642

  Hannes, Karin ^a,b   Lockwood, Craig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Belgian Center for Evidence Based Medicine   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Meta aggregation; Meta synthesis; Nursing; Philosophy; Pragmatism; Qualitative evidence synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PHILOSOPHY; POLICY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PHILOSOPHY; POLICY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 79958770331     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05636.x     Document Type: Article

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