Reviewing studies with diverse designs: the development and evaluation of a new tool.

By R. Sirriyeh, Rebecca Lawton, Peter H Gardner, G. Armitage. Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice, 2012

679 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Convergent and sequential synthesis designs: implications for conducting and reporting systematic reviews of qualitative and quantitative evidence (2017, background): “For example, several critical appraisal tools for assessing the quality of quantitative and qualitative studies have been developed [9, 11, 12].”
Barriers and facilitators related to the implementation of a physiological track and trigger system: A systematic review of the qualitative evidence (2017, methodology): “The methodological quality of the included studies was assessed using the Quality Assessment Tool for Studies with Diverse Designs [QATSDD;[29]].”
Improving the content validity of the mixed methods appraisal tool: a modified e-Delphi study. (2019, methodology): “Also, some tools such as the Quality Assessment Tool for Studies with Diverse Designs (QATSDD) [45] use a combination of generic and individual component approaches, with generic criteria applicable to several designs and specific criteria for qualitative and quantitative studies.”