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. 2015 Oct 27;12(10):e1001895.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001895. eCollection 2015 Oct.

Using qualitative evidence in decision making for health and social interventions: an approach to assess confidence in findings from qualitative evidence syntheses (GRADE-CERQual)

Simon Lewin  1 , Claire Glenton  2 , Heather Munthe-Kaas  3 , Benedicte Carlsen  4 , Christopher J Colvin  5 , Metin Gülmezoglu  6 , Jane Noyes  7 , Andrew Booth  8 , Ruth Garside  9 , Arash Rashidian  10
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Using qualitative evidence in decision making for health and social interventions: an approach to assess confidence in findings from qualitative evidence syntheses (GRADE-CERQual)

Simon Lewin et al. PLoS Med. .

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Abstract

Simon Lewin and colleagues present a methodology for increasing transparency and confidence in qualitative research synthesis.

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Conflict of interest statement

JN declared receiving a small grant from the Cochrane Collaboration to undertake a component of this this work and received travel expenses to attend meetings from the WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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