Qualitative research as evidence: expanding the paradigm for evidence-based healthcare

Writing in the BMJ, David Sackett and John Wennberg pointed out over 20 years ago we need to stop ‘squabbling over the best methods’ and focus on the research question, since it is the nature of the question that determines the best research design to answer it.1 Yet, the majority of evidence hierar...

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Published inBMJ evidence-based medicine Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 168 - 169
Main Authors Williams, Veronika, Boylan, Anne-Marie, Nunan, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.10.2019
Subjects
Chronic illnesses
Content analysis
Ethnography
Evidence-based medicine
Evidence-Based Practice - methods
Humans
Medical errors
Qualitative Research
critical appraisal
patient experience
qualitative health research
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Summary:Writing in the BMJ, David Sackett and John Wennberg pointed out over 20 years ago we need to stop ‘squabbling over the best methods’ and focus on the research question, since it is the nature of the question that determines the best research design to answer it.1 Yet, the majority of evidence hierarchies and ‘levels’2 still do not include qualitative methodologies, and Evidence-based Health Care (EBHC) still largely focuses on the positivist perspective of generating and applying knowledge in healthcare practice.3 Despite its lack of prominence in EBHC, qualitative research in healthcare has increasingly been conducted and published since Sackett and Wennberg’s editorial, and the publication of qualitative evidence syntheses have doubled in the past decade.4
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ISSN:2515-446X
2515-4478
DOI:10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111131