Metasynthesis findings: Potential versus reality

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1581-1591

  Finfgeld Connett, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

knowledge construction; metasynthesis; model building; research evaluation; systematic reviews; theory development

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LITERATURE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84908871693     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732314548878     Document Type: Article

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