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The substantially updated and revised Fifth Edition of this landmark handbook presents the state-of-the-art theory and practice of qualitative inquiry. Represen

Research synthesis is the practice of systematically distilling and integrating data from many studies in order to draw more reliable conclusions about a given

A considerable number of journal publications using a range of qualitative synthesis approaches has been published. Mary Dixon-Woods and colleagues (Mary Dixon-

"Practitioners and patients are called upon to make numerous health care decisions and, in doing so, need to weigh various types of information before taking ac