Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  France, Emma F ^a   Cunningham, Maggie ^a   Ring, Nicola ^b   Uny, Isabelle ^a   Duncan, Edward A S ^a   Jepson, Ruth G ^c   Maxwell, Margaret ^a   Roberts, Rachel J ^a   Turley, Ruth L ^d   Booth, Andrew ^f   Britten, Nicky ^g   Flemming, Kate ^h   Gallagher, Ian ⁱ   Garside, Ruth ^g   Hannes, Karin ^j   Lewin, Simon ^k,l   Noblit, George W ^m   Pope, Catherine ⁿ   Thomas, James ^o   Vanstone, Meredith ^p   Higginbottom, Gina M A ^q   Noyes, Jane ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ eMERGe project   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^k NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^l SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^p MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^q UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Guideline; Meta ethnography; Nursing; Publication standards; Qualitative evidence synthesis; Qualitative research; Reporting; Research design; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 85060956671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-018-0600-0     Document Type: Article

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