Achieving integration in mixed methods designs - Principles and practices

Health Services Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6 PART2, 2013, Pages 2134-2156

  Fetters, Michael D ^a   Curry, Leslie A ^b   Creswell, John W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostatistical methods; Epidemiology; Focus groups; Program evaluation; Qualitative research; Research methodology; Sampling; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONVERGENT MIXED METHOD; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EMBEDDING; EXPLORATORY SEQUENTIAL MIXED METHOD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAMPLING; SCIENTIST; STUDY DESIGN; BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVEY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOCUS GROUPS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SAMPLING; SURVEY;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84892970287     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12117     Document Type: Article

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