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Qualitative Research in Palliative Care: Applications to Clinical Trials Work
- Source :
- Journal of Palliative Medicine. 20:857-861
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2017.
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Abstract
- While vast opportunities for using qualitative methods exist within palliative care research, few studies provide practical advice for researchers and clinicians as a roadmap to identify and utilize such opportunities.To provide palliative care clinicians and researchers descriptions of qualitative methodology applied to innovative research questions relative to palliative care research and define basic concepts in qualitative research. Body: We describe three qualitative projects as exemplars to describe major concepts in qualitative analysis of early palliative care: (1) a descriptive analysis of clinician documentation in the electronic health record, (2) a thematic content analysis of palliative care clinician focus groups, and (3) a framework analysis of audio-recorded encounters between patients and clinicians as part of a clinical trial.This study provides a foundation for undertaking qualitative research within palliative care and serves as a framework for use by other palliative care researchers interested in qualitative methodologies.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Palliative care
Nursing Methodology Research
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Documentation
Nursing
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Qualitative Research
General Nursing
Aged
Quality of Health Care
Aged, 80 and over
Clinical Trials as Topic
Descriptive statistics
business.industry
Palliative Care
Original Articles
General Medicine
Focus Groups
Middle Aged
Focus group
Clinical trial
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Work (electrical)
Research Design
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Female
Thematic analysis
business
Qualitative research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15577740 and 10966218
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....64028cc08c8c1c32349b5141eb9d1ae9