Metasynthetic Madness
What Kind of Monster Have We Created
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4692922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally Thorne (0000-0002-1156-9425, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-12 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732316679370 |
| PMID | 27956657 |
| OpenAlex | W2562851231 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 42 |
From its origins in the 1990s, the qualitative health research metasynthesis project represented a methodological maneuver to capitalize on a growing investment in qualitatively derived study reports to create an interactive dialogue among them that would surface expanded insights about complex human phenomena. However, newer forms positioning themselves as qualitative metasynthesis but representing a much more technical and theoretically superficial form of scholarly enterprise have begun to appear in the health research literature. It seems imperative that we think through the implications of this trend and determine whether it is to be afforded the credibility of being a form of qualitative scholarship and, if so, what kind of scholarship it represents. As the standardization trend in synthesis research marches forward, we will need clarity and a strong sense of purpose if we are to preserve the essence of what the qualitative metasynthesis project was intended to be all about
CLARITY · Credibility · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Standardization · Clinical practice guidelines implementation · Engineering · Health Policy Implementation Science · Law · Meta-analysis and systematic reviews · Philosophy · Psychology
What is ‘moral distress’? A narrative synthesis of the literature
Purposive sampling in a qualitative evidence synthesis
Time to challenge the spurious hierarchy of systematic over narrative reviews?
Optimising the value of the critical appraisal skills programme (Casp) tool for quality appraisal in qualitative evidence synthesis
Improving reporting of meta-ethnography
Applying GRADE-Cerqual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings
Facilitators, barriers and support needs for staying at work with a chronic condition
What are the evaluations of young mothers about programs designed to support their academic achievement? A qualitative systematic review
Heideggerian structures of Being-with in the nurse–patient relationship
Metasynthesis
Decolonizing Scoping Review Methodologies for Literature With, for, and by Indigenous Peoples and the African Diaspora
Out of place, scale and time? Navigating injustices across mission arenas of the German Energiewende
Qualitative Research on Expanded Prenatal and Newborn Screening
What are the psychological and cognitive wellbeing benefits as reported by people experiencing green space? A meta-ethnography
Refugee and asylum-seeker children’s experiences
“They Do Us Wrong”
Conceptualizing attunement in dementia care
Developing a Critical Imagination for How Researchers can use Artificially Intelligent Tools Reflexively and Responsibly During Qualitative Literature Reviews
What Facilitates “Patient Empowerment” in Cancer Patients During Follow-Up
Unsettling Knowledge Synthesis Methods Using Institutional Ethnography
Advancing the Field of Synthesis Scholarship
Asking More of Qualitative Synthesis
Chronic Paradoxes
Living With an Intestinal Stoma
Parents’ experiences of perinatal child protection processes
Evaluating the effects of cultural immersion on counselor trainees' multicultural development and intercultural competence
Can a Meta-ethnography Be Updated by Different Reviewers? Reflections From a Recent Update
Representations of Meta-Ethnography
A meta-ethnography of participatory health research and co-production in Nepal
"Trapped in an Empty Waiting Room"-The Existential Human Core of Loneliness in Old Age
Harnessing Energies, Resolving Tensions
Health Practitioners' Perceptions of Falls and Fall Prevention in Older People
How Do People Experience Early Intervention Services for Psychosis? A Meta-Synthesis
Situating Preventive Action in a Moral and Clinical Context
Appraising Qualitative Research for Evidence Syntheses
Heterodox and Orthodox Discourses in the Case of Lyme Disease
Life as Experienced Within and Through the Body After the Age of 85 Years
On the Evolving World of What Constitutes Qualitative Synthesis
When Health Care is Displaced by State Interests
The Impact of Evidence-Based Medicine on Qualitative Metasynthesis
A Meta-Study of Qualitative Research Examining Sport and Recreation Experiences of Indigenous Youth
To more than I can be
Traveling health-promoting infrastructures
Social Constructivist Meta-Ethnography - - A Framework Construction
Qualitative Evidence Synthesis
Lessons learned from applying Sandelowski and Barroso's approach for synthesising qualitative research
Completing a Qualitative Project
Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research
Rameses publication standards
Enhancing transparency in reporting the synthesis of qualitative research
Conducting a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature on access to healthcare by vulnerable groups
'Scoping the scope' of a cochrane review
Development of AMSTAR
The integrative review
Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviews
Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (Coreq)
A typology of reviews
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
Prenatal Care Use Among Women of Low Income
Meta-Ethnography
Qualitative Metasynthesis
Chronic Illness Experience
Why Qualitative Research Needs More and Better Systematic Review
Rationale and Standards for the Systematic Review of Qualitative Literature in Health Services Research
Storylines of research in diffusion of innovation
Digging for Nuggets
Metatheorizing in sociology
The Future of Theory-Generating Meta-Synthesis Research
Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Findings
Aggregating Qualitative Findings
Meta-Study as Diagnostic
Using Sandelowski and Barroso's Meta-Synthesis Method in Advancing Qualitative Evidence
Metatheory, Metamethod, Meta-Data-Analysis
| Citations per year | 5.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |