Ethnography as a methodological descriptor: The editors' reply

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 555-556

  Dixon Woods, Mary ^a   Shojania, Kaveh G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; ETHNOGRAPHY; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; PUBLISHING;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; HUMANS; PUBLISHING;

EID: 84979300803     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-005117     Document Type: Letter

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