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| Critical reflections on the rise of qualitative research | | Author(s) | Catherine Pope, Nicholas Mays |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 339, no 7723, 26 September 2009 |
| Pages | pp 737-739 |
| Source | www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Health services ; Qualitative Studies ; Research ; Methodology. |
| Annotation | Sixteen years ago in an article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the authors were arguing for greater use of qualitative techniques in health research. Now they are concerned that the methods are not always used appropriately. As with the piece in 1993, this article imagines a conversation between a retiring director of research and a sociologist at his retirement party. They discuss the quality of qualitative research in the intervening years; the over-use of one-to-one interviews with health professionals, service managers and policy-makers which do not get to the nub of problems; the shortcomings of research because of ethical constraints; and the use of "mixed methods" in research. The authors as themselves note qualitative and quantitative methods that can be integrated at different stages of a research project. In addition, they outline three examples of integrating mixed methods in research. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091029211 A |
| Classmark | L: 3DP: 3A: 3D * |
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