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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2021

Guidance for publishing qualitative research in informatics.

Jessica S Ancker, Natalie C Benda, Madhu Reddy, Kim M Unertl, Tiffany Veinot

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jessica S AnckerDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3859-9130
Natalie C BendaDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3256-0243
Madhu ReddyDepartment of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
Kim M UnertlDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Tiffany VeinotSchool of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1200-9515

Funding

Technology Enabled Services for Coordinated Care of Depression in Healthcare SettingsP50MH119029 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI DAVID CURTIS MOHR, Jessica Lee Schleider · 2020 to 2026
$10.7M
NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH119029
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Qualitative research, the analysis of nonquantitative and nonquantifiable data through methods such as interviews and observation, is integral to the field of biomedical and health informatics. To demonstrate the integrity and quality of their qualitative research, authors should report important elements of their work. This perspective article offers guidance about reporting components of the research, including theory, the research question, sampling, data collection methods, data analysis, results, and discussion. Addressing these points in the paper assists peer reviewers and readers in assessing the rigor of the work and its contribution to the literature. Clearer and more detailed reporting will ensure that qualitative research will continue to be published in informatics, helping researchers disseminate their understanding of people, organizations, context, and sociotechnical relationships as they relate to biomedical and health data.

Indexed as

Biomedical ResearchMedical InformaticsHumansPublishingQualitative ResearchResearch DesignResearch PersonnelResearch Reportbiasesdata analysisdata collectionqualitative methodsqualitative researchreliability

Identifiers

PMID34537840
PMCPMC8633663

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