The Internet in Medical Education: A Worked Example of a Realist Review

Synthesizing Qualitative Research: Choosing the Right Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 83-112

  Wong, Geoff ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choices about use, and context; Complex interventions; Context, mechanism, outcome; Human "components"; Internet in medical education; Internet based medical education; Realist review, theory driven; Threshold, searching ceasing with saturation

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455180613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119959847.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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