Abstract
This article explores the difference between qualitative and quantitative research and the need for doctors to be able to interpret and appraise qualitative research
Keywords
Qualitative researchReading (process)Management scienceQualitative analysisEpistemologyPsychologyEngineering ethicsSociologySocial scienceLinguisticsEngineeringPhilosophy
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- Year
- 2008
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 337
- Issue
- aug07 3
- Pages
- a288-a288
- Citations
- 510
- Access
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Ayelet Kuper,
Scott Reeves,
Wendy Levinson
(2008).
An introduction to reading and appraising qualitative research.
BMJ
, 337
(aug07 3)
, a288-a288.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a288
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- DOI
- 10.1136/bmj.a288