Dear list members
1. PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/) has some fantastic built-in search filters for identifying most high-quality trials in therapy, prevention, harm, etiology etc, put together by Bryan Haynes. These have saved me hours of time in searching for quantitative studies.
I am looking for similar filters to identify qualitative and/or ethnographic studies. Does anyone know if this probelm is being worked on systematically by any group?
2. Might Bryan and his colleagues at NLM consider adding a qualitative research filter to the PubMed site if it can be shown to be useful?
3. Is there an up-to-date summary of the recommended databases in addition to Medline which one would need to search in order to capture all or most qualitative health and health services research on a particular topic?
4. Has anyone got a good summary article on how to do qualitative overviews? There is a SAGE book published 10 years ago but I suspect someone has an updated and shorter set of recommendations by now.
(I've tried to access the Cochrane Qualitative Methods Group by email but heve not received a reply and I may be mailing an old address, though it's still on the web!)
Thanks in anticipation.
trish
Dr Trish Greenhalgh
Senior lecturer in primary health care
Unit for Evidence-Based Practice and Policy
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