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      Qualitative research: standards, challenges, and guidelines.

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      Lancet (London, England)
      Elsevier BV

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          Abstract

          Qualitative research methods could help us to improve our understanding of medicine. Rather than thinking of qualitative and quantitative strategies as incompatible, they should be seen as complementary. Although procedures for textual interpretation differ from those of statistical analysis, because of the different type of data used and questions to be answered, the underlying principles are much the same. In this article I propose relevance, validity, and reflexivity as overall standards for qualitative inquiry. I will discuss the specific challenges in relation to reflexivity, transferability, and shared assumptions of interpretation, which are met by medical researchers who do this type of research, and I will propose guidelines for qualitative inquiry.

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          Lancet
          Lancet (London, England)
          Elsevier BV
          0140-6736
          0140-6736
          Aug 11 2001
          : 358
          : 9280
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Section for General Practice, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Ulriksdal 8C, N-5009, Bergen, Norway. kirsti.malterud@isf.uib.no
          Article
          S0140-6736(01)05627-6
          10.1016/S0140-6736(01)05627-6
          11513933
          9303e790-ff1f-4363-92ce-7e32906c30ac
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