PMU13 WHY IS QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS OVERLOOKED AND UNDERVALUED?

Viewpoint: Pericardiocentesis--is it undervalued?

Application of qualitative research in management (why, when and how)

Application of qualitative research in management (why, when and how) Qualitative research has been increasingly used in all sciences. In this paper we will discuss about the applications of qualitative research methods in management sciences. The differences between quantitative and qualitative researches will be clarified and the statistical methods which are suitable for such researches will...

What is a qualitative synthesis?

If you want to inform your practice with answers to questions such as ‘What is it like for people to suffer chronic pain?’ or ‘What are patients’ understanding and experience of hypertension and taking medication’ or ‘What are older people’s views about falling and taking part in a falls programme’ then what might you do? You could read individual research papers, but often there are many paper...

Is visual imagery really visual? Overlooked evidence from neuropsychology.

Does visual imagery engage some of the same representations used in visual perception? The evidence collected by cognitive psychologists in support of this claim has been challenged by three types of alternative explanation: Tacit knowledge, according to which subjects use nonvisual representations to simulate the use of visual representations during imagery tasks, guided by their tacit knowled...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...