CERQual: A new approach for supporting the use of qualitative evidence in decision making

A new paper published in PLoS Medicine this week describes an innovative and transparent approach for assessing how much confidence to place in findings from qualitative evidence syntheses.The new approach, known as CERQual (‘Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research’), is designed to help decision makers use qualitative evidence for decisions and policies about healthcare and social welfare. External link for more information:  http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.137... Contributor's Information Contributor's name:  CEAD Email address:  cead@lists.cochrane.org read more
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