Reconsidering Evaluation Criteria for Scientific Adequacy in Health Care Research: An Integrative Framework of Quantitative and Qualitative Criteria

It is important to reconsider evaluation criteria regarding scientific adequacy in health care research. In this article the authors review the four pairs of quantitative/qualitative paradigms. They discuss the use of evaluation criteria based on a pragmatic perspective after examining the epistemol...

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Main Authors: Hiroaki Miyata PhD, Ichiro Kai MD, MPH
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2009-03-01
Series:International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/160940690900800106