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Meta-study of qualitative health research : a practical guide to meta-analysis and meta-synthesis / Barbara L. Paterson ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Paterson, Barbara L.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Methods in nursing research: Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage publications, c2001Description: xiii, 162 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780761924159 .Subject(s): Meta-analysis | Medicine -- Research -- Evaluation | Nursing Research | Meta-AnalysisDDC classification: 610.7 PAT
Contents:
Introduction -- Laying the groundwork for meta-study -- The retrieval and assessment of primary research -- Meta-data-analysis -- Meta-method -- Meta-theory -- Meta-synthesis -- Evaluation, dissemination, and futire challanges.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"This book is a superior achievement from a group of masterful scholars. The book shows the theoretical, ethical, and political complexity of qualitative study, and yet offers an illuminating and useful guide to how it can be accomplished with distinction. I highly recommend it."

--MARGARETE SANDELOWSKI, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor, School of Nursing

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In this book, Volume 3 of the Methods in Nursing Research series, Barbara Paterson and colleagues provide step-by-step directions for how to proceed in conducting a meta-study, as well as recommendations for tools and standards relating to the application of their approach. Drawing from their experience with meta-study research projects on chronic illness, the authors articulate and theorize the meta-analysis and meta-synthesis of qualitatively derived knowledge.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-150) and indexes.

Introduction -- Laying the groundwork for meta-study -- The retrieval and assessment of primary research -- Meta-data-analysis -- Meta-method -- Meta-theory -- Meta-synthesis -- Evaluation, dissemination, and futire challanges.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Laying the Groundwork for Meta-Study
  • The Retrieval and Assessment of Primary Research
  • Meta-Data-Analysis
  • Meta-Method
  • Meta-Theory
  • Meta-Synthesis
  • Evaluation, Dissemination and Future Challenges

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, FAAN, FCAHS, is a Professor and former Director of the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia, where she currently also holds the position of Associate Dean of Applied Science. She has a longstanding research program in the field of patient experience and relational practice in chronic illness and cancer care in addition to a body of scholarly work in the philosophy of science, the nature of evidence, and applied qualitative methodology. She is author of four books, including a popular qualitative research text on Interpretive Description. She has an extensive record of peer reviewed journal publications and has presented her work internationally as invited scholar, keynote lecturer and distinguished professor. She is Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Nursing Inquiry and Associate Editor for Qualitative Health Research. She hasserved terms as Board Director for numerous organizations, including the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and the Association of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, and is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

ducational Background BN, Dalhousie University MSN, University of British Columbia PhD, University of VictoriaService Member, Interprofessional Education Curriculum Committee Faculty Affilliate, Human Early Learning Partnership Board Member, BC Council For Families