Qualitative research in health care: Assessing quality in qualitative research
BMJPublished 1 January 2000Open access
Nicholas Mays
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Two views of how qualitative methods might be judged are outlined and it is argued that qualitative research can be assessed according to two broad criteria: validity and relevance.
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