Can a Meta-ethnography Be Updated by Different Reviewers? Reflections From a Recent Update
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7819217 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evi Germeni (0000-0001-5576-8816), Ruth Garside (0000-0003-1649-4773), Julia Frost (0000-0002-3503-5911), Morwenna Rogers (0000-0002-6039-238X), Nicky Britten (0000-0002-7533-414X) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Methods (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1609-4069 • E-ISSN: 1609-4069 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/16094069211046431 |
| OpenAlex | W3198746649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 28 |
Over the last decade, there has been a proliferation of published meta-ethnographies. Yet, strategies and techniques for updating have not received the same attention, rendering answers to important methodological questions still elusive. One such question has to do with who can perform an update. Although it is not uncommon for quantitative systematic reviews and statistical meta-analyses to be updated by different reviewers, qualitative synthesists might find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, as meta-ethnography constitutes an interpretation three times removed from the lived experience of the participants in the original studies, it could be argued that an update by different reviewers might add an extra layer of interpretation. By comparison, updating by the same reviewers could give rise to concerns about the robustness of updated findings, as an implicit drive for making new data fit the original work might be difficult to control for. We recently reported the findings of our attempt to update an earlier meta-ethnography of primary care antibiotic prescribing, conducted by a different team of reviewers. In this article, we wish to contribute to the emerging debate on the necessity of promoting a culture of updating in qualitative evidence synthesis, by discussing some of the practical and methodological issues we considered at each stage of the process and offering lessons learnt from our experience
Data science · Epistemology · Ethnography · Interpretation (philosophy · Management science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Health Policy Implementation Science · Meta-analysis and systematic reviews · Psychology · Reliability and Agreement in Measurement
| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |