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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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1 Research Institute Havelhöhe (FIH), Havelhöhe Hospital, 14089 Berlin, Germany 2Department of Oncology, Havelhöhe Hospital, 14089 Berlin, Germany 3 Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medicine, 14089 Berlin, Germany 4 Institute of Integrative Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58313 Herdecke,...

McLean R, Williams S, Mann J. (Department of Human Nutrition; Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago; Department of Preventive and Social Medicine; Department of Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.) Monitoring population sodium intake using spot urine samples: Validation in a New Zealand populati...