The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications

Honesty, candour, and transparency: clinical implications

In advance of a medical conference on the duty of candour for medical ethics educators, this paper discusses the duty of candour as a significant development in the culture of medicine. Those who teach medical ethics need to assess its implications for their own practice. It is also a duty that needs to be critically examined in light of both patients' interests and clinical work environments i...

Implications of Patient Portal Transparency in Oncology: Qualitative Interview Study on the Experiences of Patients, Oncologists, and Medical Informaticists.

BACKGROUND Providing patients with unrestricted access to their electronic medical records through patient portals has impacted patient-provider communication and patients' personal health knowledge. However, little is known about how patient portals are used in oncology. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to understand attitudes of the portal's adoption for oncology and to identify the adva...

Enhancing transparency in reporting the synthesis of qualitative research: ENTREQ

BACKGROUND The syntheses of multiple qualitative studies can pull together data across different contexts, generate new theoretical or conceptual models, identify research gaps, and provide evidence for the development, implementation and evaluation of health interventions. This study aims to develop a framework for reporting the synthesis of qualitative health research. METHODS We conducted ...

Digital Deliberations

Insights into Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Case for Value Transparency

This paper reports on the preliminary findings of a two-year project investigating transparency in supply relations. Employing participative action research, the conceptual model has been tested by a series of open interviews and through the use of NVivo, the key issues relating to the management of innovation and technology identified.