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Toye, Francine, Seers, Kate, Allcock, Nick, Briggs, Michelle, Carr, Eloise and Barker, Karen, MSc (2014) Meta-ethnography 25 years on : challenges and insights for synthesising a large number of qualitative studies. BMC Medical Research Methodology, Volume 14 (Number 1). Article number 80. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-14-80 ISSN 1471-2288.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-14-80
Abstract
Studies that systematically search for and synthesise qualitative research are becoming more evident in health care, and they can make an important contribution to patient care. Our team was funded to complete a meta-ethnography of patients’ experience of chronic musculoskeletal pain. It has been 25 years since Noblit and Hare published their core text on meta-ethnography, and the current health research environment brings additional challenges to researchers aiming to synthesise qualitative research. Noblit and Hare propose seven stages of meta-ethnography which take the researcher from formulating a research idea to expressing the findings. These stages are not discrete but form part of an iterative research process. We aimed to build on the methods of Noblit and Hare and explore the challenges of including a large number of qualitative studies into a qualitative systematic review. These challenges hinge upon epistemological and practical issues to be considered alongside expectations about what determines high quality research. This paper describes our method and explores these challenges. Central to our method was the process of collaborative interpretation of concepts and the decision to exclude original material where we could not decipher a concept. We use excerpts from our research team's reflexive statements to illustrate the development of our methods.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Warwick Research in Nursing > Royal College of Nursing Research Institute (RCN) (- July 2017) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Qualitative research, Medical care -- Research | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | BMC Medical Research Methodology | ||||||||
| Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1471-2288 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 21 June 2014 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 14 | ||||||||
| Number: | Number 1 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | Article number 80 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2288-14-80 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 December 2015 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 December 2015 | ||||||||
| Funder: | National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) (NIHR) |
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