Abstract
Qualitative research is not a unified field. Most manuscript and grant reviewers are not qualitative experts and are likely to embrace a generic set of criteria rather than those relevant to the particular qualitative approach proposed or reported. Reviewers and researchers need to be aware of this tendency and educate health care researchers about the criteria appropriate for evaluating qualitative research from within the theoretical and methodological framework from which it emerges.
Keywords
Qualitative researchCLARITYCredibilitySet (abstract data type)MedicineResearch designConsistency (knowledge bases)Medical educationApplied psychologyManagement sciencePsychologyEngineering ethicsEpistemologySociologyComputer scienceSocial science
MeSH Terms
EthicsResearchHealth Services ResearchHumansQualitative ResearchReproducibility of ResultsResearch Design
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Deborah J. Cohen,
Benjamin F. Crabtree
(2008).
Evaluative Criteria for Qualitative Research in Health Care: Controversies and Recommendations.
The Annals of Family Medicine
, 6
(4)
, 331-339.
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.818
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- DOI
- 10.1370/afm.818
- PMID
- 18626033
- PMCID
- PMC2478498