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Developing Optimal Search Strategies for Retrieving Clinically Relevant Qualitative Studies in EMBASE

Abstract

Qualitative researchers address many issues relevant to patient health care. Their studies appear in an array of journals, making literature searching difficult. Large databases such as EMBASE provide a means of retrieving qualitative research, but these studies represent only a minuscule fraction of published articles, making electronic retrieval problematic. Little work has been done on developing search strategies for the detection of …

Authors

Walters LA; Wilczynski NL; Haynes RB

Journal

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 162–168

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

January 2006

DOI

10.1177/1049732305284027

ISSN

1049-7323