Qualitative research is, by its very nature, often focused on individual cases such as a single
setting or a specific group of patients or health care practitioners. Even larger scale …

Much qualitative research is interview based, and this paper provides an outline of
qualitative interview techniques and their application in medical settings. It explains the …

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to review published papers which use qualitative interviewing
in general practice as their methodology. To look specifically at the detail of how the …

Developed from a strong philosophical tradition, phenomenological research puts human
experience at the heart of the research process. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis …

Being an editor provides me with behind-the-scenes information. I see, for instance,
unpublished manuscripts and reviewers' critiques of these manuscripts that sometimes …

Objectives This paper outlines an approach to analysing qualitative textual data from
interviews and discusses how to ensure analytic procedures are appropriately rigorous …

Clinicians used to observing individual patients, and epidemiologists trained to observe the
course of disease, may be forgiven for misunderstanding the term observational method as …

Qualitative inquiry provides a means of apprehending the personal and contextual
experiences of health and health care as well as the complex social, cultural and political …

The first two chapters of this book set out what we believe are the distinguishing
characteristics of practitioner research. Briefly, in Chapter 1 we indicated that practitioner …

A warm welcome to all. We are located in the Faculty of Nursing, University of South
Australia, on the second floor of an inner City building, with views of the Adelaide Hills …