Evaluating meta-ethnography: systematic analysis and synthesis of qualitative research
Health Technology AssessmentPublished 1 December 2011Open access
Rona Campbell, Pandora Pound, Myfanwy Morgan, Gavin Daker‐White, Nicky Britten, Roisin Pill
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Meta-ethnography has great potential as a method of synthesis in qualitative health technology assessment but it is still evolving and cannot, at present, be regarded as a standardised approach capable of application in a routinised way.
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Funding for this study was provided by the Health Technology Assessment programme of the National Institute for Health Research.
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