A methodological systematic review of what's wrong with meta-ethnography reporting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Syntheses of qualitative studies can inform health policy, services and our understanding of patient experience. Meta-ethnography is a systematic seven-phase interpretive qualitative synthesis approach well-suited to producing new theories and conceptual models. However, there are concerns about the quality of meta-ethnography reporting, particularly the analysis and synthesis processes. Our aim was to investigate the application and reporting of methods in recent meta-ethnography journal papers, focusing on the analysis and synthesis process and output.

Methods

Methodological systematic review of health-related meta-ethnography journal papers published from 2012-2013. We searched six electronic databases, Google Scholar and Zetoc for papers using key terms includ

SUBMITTER: France EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4277825 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature