Medicine Taking for Asthma: A Worked Example of Meta-Ethnography

Synthesizing Qualitative Research: Choosing the Right Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 41-57

  Britten, Nicky ^a   Pope, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"desegregation ethnographies"; "lines of argument"; CASP, quality appraisal; Interpretative approach to synthesis; Medication, and normalization; Noblit and Hare, and meta ethnography; Perception and use of medicines; Person's sense of identity; Reciprocal translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886954998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119959847.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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