Desperately seeking dissonance: Identifying the disconfirming case in qualitative evidence synthesis

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 126-141

  Booth, Andrew ^a   Carroll, Christopher ^a   Ilott, Irene ^b   Low, Lee Lan ^c   Cooper, Katy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

meta ethnography; metasynthesis; research, qualitative; systematic reviews; triangulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84870024510     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312466295     Document Type: Review

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