Dear Dr Nomura,
Vist here:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Miner/Educ/ebnfilt.htm
You will find a pretty complicated searching filter of qulitative
research for CINAHL database. This example will give you some idea
to refine your searching method for MEDLINE.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Toshio
>Sounds like people are interested in appraising qualitative studies,
>but how do you find qualitative studies in MEDLINE ? There seems
>to be no MESH terms for qualitative studies; there is a MESH term
>"Interveiws" but this appears to be insufficient. Text search with
>"qualitat$" got some hits, but missed a lot.
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>Hideki Nomura, MD, PhD
>Deputy Director/Associate Professor
>Department of General Medicine
>Kanazawa University Hospital
>Kanazawa 920-8641, Japan
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