TY - BOOK AU - Porritt,Kylie AU - Pearson,Alan ED - Joanna Briggs Institute. TI - The Historical Emergence of Qualitative Synthesis T2 - [Lippincott-Joanna Briggs Institute Series on Synthesis Science in Healthcare] SN - 9781469851280 U1 - 362.10721 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] PB - Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins KW - Medical care KW - Research KW - Evidence-based medicine KW - Qualitative research KW - UK eLD e-books KW - IeDuTC KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) N2 - Evidence for practice has increasingly influenced and contributed to the improvement of health care over the past few decades. While evidence for practice appears to be an integral component to decision making in health care practice, it has historically been dominated by the results of quantitative research. This book reviews the degree to which qualitative research, specifically qualitative systematic review, is valued within the domain of evidence-based practice by examining and exploring contemporary debates on the nature of evidence and the place of qualitative research findings in evidence based health care UR - http://ovidsp.ovid.com/athens/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=n&CSC=Y&PAGE=booktext&D=books&AN=01768403$&XPATH=/PG(0)&EPUB=Y ER -