Meta-narrative and realist reviews: Guidance, rules, publication standards and quality appraisal

BMC Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gough, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meta narrative; Realist synthesis.; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ETHNOGRAPHY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATIONS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84872930972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-22     Document Type: Note

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