Journal
QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Volume 24, Issue 11, Pages 1581-1591Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1049732314548878
Keywords
knowledge construction; metasynthesis; model building; research evaluation; systematic reviews; theory development
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Early on, qualitative researchers predicted that metasynthesis research had the potential to significantly push knowledge development forward. More recently, scholars have questioned whether this is actually occurring. To examine this concern, a randomly selected sample of metasynthesis articles was systematically reviewed to identify the types of findings that have been produced. Based on this systematic examination, it appears that findings from metasynthesis investigations might not be reaching their full potential. Metasynthesis investigations frequently result in isolated findings rather than findings in relationship, and opportunities to generate research hypotheses and theoretical models are not always fully realized. With this in mind, methods for moving metasynthesis findings into relationship are discussed.
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