An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

Trisha Greenhalgh; Ellen Annandale; Richard Ashcroft; James Barlow; Nick Black; Alan Bleakley; Ruth Boaden; Jeffrey Braithwaite; Nicky Britten; Franco Carnevale; Kath Checkland; Julianne Cheek; Alex Clark; Simon Cohn; Jack Coulehan; Benjamin Crabtree; Steven Cummins; Frank Davidoff; Huw Davies; Robert Dingwall; Mary Dixon-Woods; Glyn Elwyn; Eivind Engebretsen; Ewan Ferlie; Naomi Fulop; John Gabbay; Marie-Pierre Gagnon; Dariusz Galasinski; Ruth Garside; Lucy Gilson; Peter Griffiths; Penny Hawe; Jan-Kees Helderman; Brian Hodges; David Hunter; Margaret Kearney; Celia Kitzinger; Jenny Kitzinger; Ayelet Kuper; Saville Kushner; Andree Le May; France Legare; Lorelei Lingard; Louise Locock; Jill Maben; Mary Ellen Macdonald; Frances Mair; Russell Mannion; Martin Marshall; Carl May; Nicholas Mays; Lorna McKee; Marissa Miraldo; David Morgan; Janice Morse; Sarah Nettleton; Sandy Oliver; Warrren Pearce; Pierre Pluye; Catherine Pope; Glenn Robert; Celia Roberts; Stefania Rodella; Jo Rycroft-Malone; Margarete Sandelowski; Paul Shekelle; Fiona Stevenson; Sharon Straus; Deborah Swinglehurst; Sally Thorne; Goran Tomson; Gerd Westert; Sue Wilkinson; Brian Williams; Terry Young; Sue Ziebland

doi:10.1136/bmj.i563

An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

Trisha Greenhalgh^*, Ellen Annandale, Richard Ashcroft, James Barlow, Nick Black, Alan Bleakley, Ruth Boaden, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Nicky Britten, Franco Carnevale, Kath Checkland, Julianne Cheek, Alex Clark, Simon Cohn, Jack Coulehan, Benjamin Crabtree, Steven Cummins, Frank Davidoff, Huw Davies, Robert DingwallMary Dixon-Woods, Glyn Elwyn, Eivind Engebretsen, Ewan Ferlie, Naomi Fulop, John Gabbay, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Dariusz Galasinski, Ruth Garside, Lucy Gilson, Peter Griffiths, Penny Hawe, Jan-Kees Helderman, Brian Hodges, David Hunter, Margaret Kearney, Celia Kitzinger, Jenny Kitzinger, Ayelet Kuper, Saville Kushner, Andree Le May, France Legare, Lorelei Lingard, Louise Locock, Jill Maben, Mary Ellen Macdonald, Frances Mair, Russell Mannion, Martin Marshall, Carl May, Nicholas Mays, Lorna McKee, Marissa Miraldo, David Morgan, Janice Morse, Sarah Nettleton, Sandy Oliver, Warrren Pearce, Pierre Pluye, Catherine Pope, Glenn Robert, Celia Roberts, Stefania Rodella, Jo Rycroft-Malone, Margarete Sandelowski, Paul Shekelle, Fiona Stevenson, Sharon Straus, Deborah Swinglehurst, Sally Thorne, Goran Tomson, Gerd Westert, Sue Wilkinson, Brian Williams, Terry Young, Sue Ziebland

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Original language	English
Article number	563
Number of pages	4
Journal	British Medical Journal
Volume	352
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i563
Publication status	Published - 10 Feb 2016

Keywords

HEALTH-CARE
RANDOMIZED-TRIAL
STATISTICS NOTES
PROGRAM
POPULATION
MORBIDITY
MORTALITY
MICHIGAN
CHILDREN

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Greenhalgh, T., Annandale, E., Ashcroft, R., Barlow, J., Black, N., Bleakley, A., Boaden, R., Braithwaite, J., Britten, N., Carnevale, F., Checkland, K., Cheek, J., Clark, A., Cohn, S., Coulehan, J., Crabtree, B., Cummins, S., Davidoff, F., Davies, H., ... Ziebland, S. (2016). An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research. British Medical Journal, 352, Article 563. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i563

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