Meta-ethnography 25 years on: Challenges and insights for synthesising a large number of qualitative studies

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

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

^a NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC PAIN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84902705682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-14-80     Document Type: Article

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