IMED2003 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Participant Observation, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill
12 Jan 2019
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Group of designs which focus on patient-oriented outcomes. Involve explicit sampling strategies and systematic data analysis. Portray the voice of the participant, usually absent from qualitative studies, and therefore provides complementary information! There is value in understanding personal experience and how it impacts the patient and practitioner experience. These methods can bridge the gap between scientific evidence and clinical practice and provide additional improvements to patient care. Disparities between how doctors and patients view medical conditions. A study describing a patient or small group of patients affected by a specific disease, or exposed to a factor (eg. an intervention) Such studies do not provide definitive evidence (in general) Which will then require the design of a higher-level study to address. These do not rank highly in the evidence hierarchy. Because they describe the clinical details of single or small groups of patients, and thus are rarely cited. Remember, no control group, so no comparisons can be made.
