'Trying to pin down jelly' - Exploring intuitive processes in quality assessment for meta-ethnography

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Toye, Francine ^a   Seers, Kate ^b   Allcock, Nick ^c,d   Briggs, Michelle ^e   Carr, Eloise ^f   Andrews, Joyann ^a   Barker, Karen ^a  

^a NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Meta ethnography; Qualitative; Qualitative synthesis; Quality appraisal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTUITION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHRONIC PAIN; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTUITION; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875189616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-13-46     Document Type: Article

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