Qualitative synthesis in practice: some pragmatics of meta-ethnography

Qualitative Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 334-350

  Lee, Richard Philip ^a   Hart, Ruth Isla ^a   Watson, Rose Mary ^a   Rapley, Tim ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

health services research; meta ethnography; methods; pragmatism; qualitative research; research synthesis; review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930469752     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794114524221     Document Type: Article

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