Metasynthesis and bricolage: An artistic exercise of creating a collage of meaning

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1285-1292

  Kinn, Liv Grethe ^a   Holgersen, Helge ^b   Ekeland, Tor Johan ^a   Davidson, Larry ^c  

^a VOLDA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

evidence based practice; hermeneutics; knowledge construction; meta ethnography; metasynthesis

Indexed keywords

ART; CREATIVITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HERMENEUTICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LITERATURE; META-ETHNOGRAPHY; METASYNTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; PROCEDURES;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HERMENEUTICS; KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION; META-ETHNOGRAPHY; METASYNTHESIS;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ART; CREATIVITY; DATA COLLECTION; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; METAPHOR; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84883015113     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732313502127     Document Type: Article

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