Qualitative research and evidence based medicine
BMJPublished 18 April 1998
John Green, Nicky Britten
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The example of asthma treatment is used to illustrate how qualitative methods can broaden the scope of evidence based medicine and help bridge the gap between scientific evidence and clinical practice.
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