Qualitative research and evidence-based healthcare
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[Qualitative research and evidence-based medicine].
Qualitative research originates from anthropology and social medicine, it has been introduced into medical field only for ten odd years. As medicine owns social humanity characteristics, its research method should not be limited to the traditional quantitative research for cause-effect relationship, and the advantages of qualitative research is just that it focuses on those unexplained and unan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107689809135s08