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Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Execmail for Win32 Version 5.0.1 Build (55) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Hideki, One of the easiest ways to develop a filter would be to check the search terms used by Cochrane. Below are some other ideas: You may wish to try using the study design that you are interested in, such as 'ethnography', 'grounded theory' or 'phenomenology'. Similarly, research methods can help, i.e. 'focus group', 'semi-structured interview', 'pile sorting', 'snowball sampling', 'code', etc. Key words are also useful, like 'emic' or 'etic', 'triangulation', 'reflective', 'narative', 'iterat$', social construct$', etc. Philosophical filters could be terms like 'positivism' or 'postmodernism'. Authors to search under could include: N Denzin, E Guba, C Pope, Y Lincoln, J Habermas, M Hammersley, P Atkinson, M Heidegger, E Husserl, B Glaser, A Strauss. Medline may not be your best database. Also consider EMBASE, PsychLIT, SIGLE, and Cinahl. Good luck! Bill On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:22:46 +0900 Hideki Nomura <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear list members, > > > 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. > > > -- > Hideki Nomura, MD, PhD > Deputy Director/Associate Professor > Department of General Medicine > Kanazawa University Hospital > Kanazawa 920-8641, Japan > phone +81-76-265-2042 > fax +81-76-234-4281 > e-mail [log in to unmask] > ---------------------- Dr. W.S.M. Summerskill EBM Teaching Coordinator, SW NHS Region University of Bristol Centre for Medical Education 41 St. Michael's Hill, Bristol BS2 8DZ [log in to unmask] Tel (0117) 954-6535 Fax (0117) 928-8591