The case study approach

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Crowe, Sarah ^a   Cresswell, Kathrin ^b   Robertson, Ann ^b   Huby, Guro ^b   Avery, Anthony ^a   Sheikh, Aziz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 79959556432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-100     Document Type: Article

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