Developing longitudinal qualitative designs: Lessons learned and recommendations for health services research

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Calman, Lynn ^a   Brunton, Lisa ^a   Molassiotis, Alex ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cancer; Health care; Interviews; Longitudinal studies; Qualitative; Research; Research design; Serial interview; Users' experiences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; ETHICS; EVALUATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATIENT SELECTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CAREGIVERS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84873248476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-13-14     Document Type: Article

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