"Best fit" framework synthesis: refining the method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Following publication of the first worked example of the "best fit" method of evidence synthesis for the systematic review of qualitative evidence in this journal, the originators of the method identified a need to specify more fully some aspects of this particular derivative of framework synthesis.

Methods and results

We therefore present a second such worked example in which all techniques are defined and explained, and their appropriateness is assessed. Specified features of the method include the development of new techniques to identify theories in a systematic manner; the creation of an a priori framework for the synthesis; and the "testing" of the synthesis. An innovative combination of existing methods of quality assessment, analysis and synthesis is used

SUBMITTER: Carroll C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3618126 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature