Asking More of Qualitative Synthesis: A Response to Sally Thorne

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1370-1376

  Britten, Nicky ^a   Garside, Ruth ^a   Pope, Catherine ^b   Frost, Julia ^a   Cooper, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

literature searching; metasynthesis; qualitative; qualitative research; qualitative synthesis; systematic review; UK

Indexed keywords

ANGER; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ANGER; COMMUNICATION; PUBLICATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 85020893237     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732317709010     Document Type: Article

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