Establishing confidence in the output of qualitative research synthesis: The ConQual approach

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Munn, Zachary ^a   Porritt, Kylie ^a   Lockwood, Craig ^a   Aromataris, Edoardo ^a   Pearson, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confidence; Credibility; Meta aggregation; Qualitative systematic reviews; Summary of findings

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84907979742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-14-108     Document Type: Article

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