Meta-Study as Diagnostic

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 307-319

  Frost, Julia ^a   Garside, Ruth ^a   Cooper, Chris ^a   Britten, Nicky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diabetes; meta ethnography; meta study; qualitative; sociology of knowledge; synthesis; systematic review; theory

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84954229004     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732315619381     Document Type: Article

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