Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group guidance series—paper 6: reporting guidelines for qualitative, implementation, and process evaluation evidence syntheses

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 97, Issue , 2018, Pages 79-85

  Flemming, Kate ^a   Booth, Andrew ^b   Hannes, Karin ^c   Cargo, Margaret ^d   Noyes, Jane ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Implementation; Methods; Qualitative evidence synthesis; Reporting guidelines; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVALUATION STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL RESEARCH;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA ACCURACY; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85031323009     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.10.022     Document Type: Article

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