Education and debate Ethnography and health care
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Development of a culture of evidence based medicine depends on a body of research that draws from both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Recent BMJ articles have usefully questioned a stark polarity between qualitative and quantitative research and helped to demystify qualitative approaches. 3 4 There has been little mention of ethnography, however, and little argument for its use in health research. I have examined some of these omissions, giving a broad indication of the nature of ethnography and arguing for its greater use within health care. I have given examples of ethnographic studies to suggest some of the issues that ethnography can help to explore, together with a brief outline of limitations of the approach.
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