Product Description: This book showcases international research on health care organizations. It presents diverse and multidisciplinary approaches to studying differing health care settings, in international context. These approaches range from in depth observation to questionnaire based measures, investigating a spectrum of health care professionals...read more

Product Description: Every year a vast number of research studies and a myriad of other forms of 'evidence' are produced that have potential to inform policy and practice. Synthesis provides a way of bringing together diverse kinds of evidence to bridge the so called 'gap' between evidence and policy...read more

This popular introduction to qualitative research has been revised throughout to reflect current practice in this important branch of health care research. It now contains a new chapter on action research, a section on analytic software, and up to date illustrative examples.