Synthesising qualitative and quantitative evidence: a review of possible methods.

By M. Dixon-Woods, Shona Agarwal, David Jones, B. Young, A. Sutton. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2005

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research

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A scoring system for appraising mixed methods research, and concomitantly appraising qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods primary studies in Mixed Studies Reviews. (2009, methodology): “Further MSRs will benefit from the Cochrane Group for Qualitative Research Methods that has published a guide to conducting narrative synthesis, which describes diverse and useful techniques (Popay et al., 2006) or other guidance (e.g., Dixon-Woods et al. (2005)).”
Guidance on Conducting a Systematic Literature Review (2017, methodology): “…into one another), refutational synthesis (identify contradictions, create refutations, and attempt to explain them), and line of argument synthesis (similar to the constant comparative method, findings from each study are used to create a general interpretation) (Dixon-Woods et al. 2005).”
Factors affecting the utilization of antenatal care in developing countries: systematic review of the literature. (2008, background): “2005, Dixon-Woods et al. 2005, Roberts et al. 2002). Roberts et al. (2002) argue that there are real risks of excluding potentially valuable information if only one type of evidence is used in a systematic review.”
On the Effectiveness of Supplemental Instruction (2014, background): “Dobbie and Joyce (2008) conducted a number of focus groups with students who attended peer-learning programs.”
Ten principles of good interdisciplinary team work (2013, methodology): “Themes were identified using a constant comparative method [35] and then each study was coded appropriately.”
Establishing a Safe Container for Learning in Simulation: The Role of the Presimulation Briefing (2014, methodology): “Consistent with a nascent set of recommendations on how to conduct literature reviews to synthesize complex evidence, we used a systematic, but nonprotocolized literature review.(39,40) We read and hand searched through references in articles related to debriefing, reflective practice, and learning ”
Systematic Mapping Studies in Software Engineering (2008, methodology): “Further means of analysis are described in (Dixon-Woods et al. 2005), but we have not found evidence of their use in software engineering systematic reviews.”
Smarter eco-cities and their leading-edge artificial intelligence of things solutions for environmental sustainability: A comprehensive systematic review (2023, background): “Overall, con ﬁ gurative synthesis goes beyond the aggregation of the research ﬁ ndings and focuses on understanding the underlying patterns, arrangements, or relationships among the research ﬁ ndings [116].”
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].”
Realist synthesis: illustrating the method for implementation research (2012, neutral): “The range of approaches to research review and synthesis has been growing over recent years [1].”
Improving response rates using a monetary incentive for patient completion of questionnaires: an observational study (2007, neutral): “Thematic analysis has been identified as one of a range of potential methods for research synthesis alongside metaethnography and 'metasynthesis', though precisely what the method involves is unclear, and there are few examples of it being used for synthesising research [35].”
Convergent and sequential synthesis designs: implications for conducting and reporting systematic reviews of qualitative and quantitative evidence (2017, neutral): “Various synthesis methods have been developed over the past decade [13, 32, 33, 43].”
Systematically reviewing qualitative and quantitative evidence to inform management and policy-making in the health field (2005, background): “In this guidance, narrative synthesis is described as incorporating six main ‘stages’ although recognising that the review process will be iterative rather than linear: (1) identifying the broad focus of the review, and searching for and mapping the available evidence; (2) specifying the review ques”
The Impact of eHealth on the Quality and Safety of Health Care: A Systematic Overview (2011, methodology): “These more novel methods of synthesis are less well developed and employed, and therefore less evaluated [126].”