In terms of databases of qualitative research, BIDS Social
Science Citation Index is quite good, and carries quite a
lot of qualitative health records. (http://www.bids.ac.uk).
With regard to articles on how to do qualitative overviews,
the CASP team have just published their checklist for
appraisal of such studies (http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/casp/).
Hope this helps
Jonathan
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
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