Am J Med Qual. 2019 Sep/Oct;34(5):439-445. doi: 10.1177/1062860619873187.
The Quality of Qualitative Research.
American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality
Dave S Collingridge, Edwin E Gantt
Affiliations
Affiliations
- 1 Dr Collingridge is with Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah.
- 2 Dr Gantt is with Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
PMID: 31479297
DOI: 10.1177/1062860619873187
Abstract
In general, an appreciation of the standards of qualitative research and the types of qualitative data analysis available to researchers have not kept pace with the growing presence of qualitative studies in medical science. To help rectify this problem, the authors clarify qualitative research reliability, validity, sampling, and generalizability. They also provide 3 major theoretical frameworks for data collection and analysis that investigators may consider adopting. These 3 approaches are ethnography, existential phenomenology, and grounded theory. For each, the basic steps of data collection and analysis involved are presented, along with real-life examples of how they can contribute to improving medical care.
Keywords: ethnography; grounded theory; phenomenology; qualitative; quantitative; reliability; sampling; validity
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