A scoping review of qualitative research in JAMIA: past contributions and opportunities for future work.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Qualitative methods are particularly well-suited to studying the complexities and contingencies that emerge in the development, preparation, and implementation of technological interventions in real-world clinical practice, and much remains to be done to use these methods to their full advantage. We aimed to analyze how qualitative methods have been used in health informatics research, focusing on objectives, populations studied, data collection, analysis methods, and fields of analytical origin.

Methods

We conducted a scoping review of original, qualitative empirical research in JAMIA from its inception in 1994 to 2019. We queried PubMed to identify relevant articles, ultimately including and extracting data from 158 articles.

Results

The proportion of qual

SUBMITTER: Hussain MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7883991 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature