Qualitative research in systematic reviews
BMJPublished 6 October 2001Open access
Mary Dixon‐Woods, Ray Fitzpatrick
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The argument for giving a place to qualitative research in systematic reviews seems to have been won, but there remain several issues that need to be addressed in making the role of qualitative evidence in reviews more systematic.
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