Publishing Multimethod Research
The Annals of Family MedicinePublished 1 July 2006Open access
Kurt C. Stange
Citations134
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An extraordinary surge in the methodological diversity of clinical research studies has occurred during the past 2 decades, with a recent dramatic rise in the scope and sophistication of mixed methods designs.
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An extraordinary surge in the methodological diversity of clinical research studies has occurred during the past 2 decades, with a recent dramatic rise in the scope and sophistication of mixed methods designs.[1][1],[2][2] Mixed methods (also known as multimethod) research involves integrating
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