Searching for qualitative research for inclusion in systematic reviews: A structured methodological review

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Booth, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Literature searching; Qualitative research; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; SEARCH ENGINE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84965029486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-016-0249-x     Document Type: Article

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