Qualitative metasynthesis: reflections on methodological orientation and ideological agenda.

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Published in Qual Health Res on December 01, 2004

Authors

Sally Thorne1, Louise Jensen, Margaret H Kearney, George Noblit, Margarete Sandelowski

Author Affiliations

1: School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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