Qualitative methods: a crucial tool for understanding changes in health systems and health care delivery.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

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Corrections and comments

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  Use of qualitative methods in published health services and management research: a 10-year review.2011

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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