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How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)

Summary points

Qualitative methods aim to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them

Qualitative research may define preliminary questions which can then be addressed in quantitative studies

A good qualitative study will address a clinical problem through a clearly formulated question and using more than one research method (triangulation)

Analysis of qualitative data can and should be done using explicit, systematic, and reproducible methods

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See Modules 4 & 5 -

• Tutorial: Sampling Techniques
• Tool: Pareto Tool (from the IHI website)
• Tool: Sampling Tool (from the IHI website)
• Tool: Histogram Tool (from the IHI website)
• Website: IHI General Improvement Methods -- Content and Tools
• Tutorial: Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle
• Tutorial: How to Improve (from the IHI website)
• Tool: Simple Data Collection Planning Tool (from the IHI Website)

• Tutorial: Operational Definition
• Tutorial: Confounding Variable
• Tutorial: How to Determine if Data Is Skewed
• Tool: Spreadsheet Template for Generating Control Charts
• Tutorial: Introductory Overview on Control Charts (Powerpoint presentation)
• Tutorial: Reading XmR Control Charts
• Tutorial: Control Chart Interpretation Rules

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