The Analytic Challenge in Interpretive Description
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- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Qualitative Methods
- Vol. 3 (1), 1-11
- https://doi.org/10.1177/160940690400300101
Abstract
The past decade has witnessed remarkable evolution within qualitative health research as scholars have moved beyond initial adherence to the specific methods of phenomenology, grounded theory, and ethnography to develop methods more responsive to the experience-based questions of interest to a practice-based discipline. Interpretive description ( Thorne, Reimer Kirkham, & MacDonald-Emes, 1997 ) is an inductive analytic approaches designed to create ways of understanding clinical phenomena that yield applications implications. In this article, we further develop our understanding of this methodological alternative by elaborating on the objective and mechanisms of its analytic processes and by expanding our consideration of its interpretive products.Keywords
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