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Using qualitative research in systematic reviews
— older people's views of hospital discharge | | Author(s) | Mike Fisher, Hazel Qureshi, Wendy Hardyman |
| Corporate Author | Social Care Institute for Excellence - SCIE |
| Publisher | Social Care Institute for Excellence, London, 2006 |
| Pages | 68 pp (How knowledge works in social care, report 9) |
| Source | SCIE, Fifth floor, 2-4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5BH. www.scie.org.uk |
| Keywords | Discharge [hospitals] ; Patients ; Attitude ; Qualitative Studies ; Evaluation ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | "What are older people's experiences of hospital discharge and how are they influenced by staff views and behaviour?" was the general research question chosen for this study, for which older people were defined at those aged 60+. The qualitative synthesis is based on a selective search that identified 104 relevant studies, of which 28 were selected for detailed evaluation and 15 for synthesis. The report describes the search strategy and methods: electronic databases (including AgeInfo, CareData and PsychInfo) were searched, also electronic versions of Ageing and Society, and Age and Ageing. The report discusses assessing study relevance and quality, also the process of synthesis and implications of this synthesis for services for older people. Two appendices are included: databases and search strategies; and a list of studies identified through search processes. Two further appendices are available online: data extraction and quality appraisal forms for the 15 studies included in qualitative synthesis (www.scie.org.uk/publications/reports/report09c.pdf.. and example text search (www.scie.org.uk/publications/reports/report09d.pdf.. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060802204 B |
| Classmark | LD:QKJ: LF: DP: 3DP: 4C: 64A |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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