Appraising Qualitative Research Reports: A Developmental Approach

Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Reading and Appraising Qualitative Research

The problem of appraising qualitative research.

Qualitative research can make a valuable contribution to the study of quality and safety in health care. Sound ways of appraising qualitative research are needed, but currently there are many different proposals with few signs of an emerging consensus. One problem has been the tendency to treat qualitative research as a unified field. We distinguish universal features of quality from those spec...

Qualitative research proposals and reports: a guide.

No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading qualitative research proposals and reports a guide is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advantages. The ...

Appraising qualitative research articles in medicine and medical education.

Although qualitative research is gaining recognition in medicine and in medical education, most clinical teachers do not know how to perform a critical appraisal of articles in these fields. This article describes a grid for the critical appraisal of qualitative research articles so that clinical teachers are in a better position to evaluate this type of research and to teach the critical appra...

An introduction to reading and appraising qualitative research.

The number of qualitative research articles published in educational journals has increased substantially over the past number of years. Qualitative studies have contributed to our understanding of important educational issues, such as minority students’ reasons for following or abandoning teacher’s recommendations and student’s reasons for departing or persisting in school. Nonetheless, educat...