Qualitative Metasynthesis: Reflections on Methodological Orientation and Ideological Agenda

By S. Thorne, L. Jensen, M. Kearney, G. Noblit, M. Sandelowski. Qualitative Health Research, 2004

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Statistics and Probability

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In General Health Professions

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2. C. Lockwood
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4. J. Connolly
5. Andrew Booth
6. A. Sutton
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Citations in the corpus

• ECE teachers’ views on play-based learning: a systematic review (2019, background): “Wary of such nuances that necessarily complicate any form of synthesis that might be performed (Thorne et al. 2004), we nonetheless see the clusters as illustrating general contextual trends in terms of the extent to which PBL is thematized in policy as well as research.”
• How can systematic reviews incorporate qualitative research? A critical perspective (2006, background): “…have resulted in other areas (such as grounded theory) where variants are rife but the same methodological label is retained (Dixon-Woods et al., 2004), or where a term is used as legitimation for research practices that may be quite distinct from those originally intended (Thorne et al., 2004).”
• Identifying core categories of client-identified impact of helpful events in psychotherapy: A qualitative meta-analysis (2007, methodology): “The most frequently used term for qualitative meta-analytic strategies, as developed in the field of nursing, is qualitative metasynthesis (cf. Finfgeld, 2003; Jensen & Allen, 1996; Thorne et al., 2004).”
• The Future of Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research (2007, background): “General introductions to metaanalysis are provided in [90, 114], while the question of how systematic reviews can incorporate qualitative research is addressed in [36, 37, 127].”
• Establishing confidence in the output of qualitative research synthesis: the ConQual approach (2014, methodology): “This is evidenced by the numerous methodologies now available to incorporate and synthesise findings from qualitative research, [10] including for example metaaggregation, meta-ethnography, realist synthesis, qualitative research synthesis and grounded theory, amongst others [5,8,11,12].”
• High-Stakes Testing and Curricular Control: A Qualitative Metasynthesis (2007, background): “Qualitative metasynthesis is part of a tradition ofmetaresearch that involves synthesizing the results of qualitative studies to gain a better understanding of the general nature ofa given phenomenon (DeWitt-Brinks & Rhodes, 1992; Thorne et al., 2004).”
• Success factors for environmentally sustainable product innovation: a systematic literature review (2014, methodology): “…the systematic review followed a five-step scheme based on recommendations by Margarey (2001), Tranfield et al. (2003), Jones (2004), and Thorne et al. (2004) that included: (i) problem definition; (ii) selection of journals; (iii) selection of studies; (iv) critical appraisement and…”