Designated a Doody's Core Title!      Written for graduate-level students and faculty in health care science disciplines, this handbook will help you integrate the findings in reports of primary qualitative studies as well as extrapolate the methods and techniques used to create a qualitative research synthesis.    Using reports of studies in two domains of research and across behavior, social science, and practice disciplines, this handbook will help you:  Locate qualitative research synthesis in qualitative research, research synthesis, research utilization, and evidence-based practice  Locate the qualitative research synthesis enterprise in reading and writing practices  Differentiate qualitative research synthesis from other forms of inquiry  Formulate significant research problems and purposes for a qualitative research synthesis study  Design credible qualitative research synthesis studies that fit available resources  Conduct comprehensive searches for primary qualitative research reports in a target domain of inquiry  Conduct judicious appraisals of these qualitative research reports  Compare and classify findings across qualitative research reports  Select methodological approaches appropriate to the content and form of the qualitative research findings  Use qualitative metasummary and metasynthesis techniques to integrate qualitative research findings  Optimize the validity of qualitative research synthesis studies  Present the results of qualitative research synthesis studies in effective, audience-appropriate ways    Supplemental materials that illustrate the transformation of research findings into research syntheses in Chapters 3, 4, 6, and 9 are available online at:  www.unc.edu/~msandelo/handbook

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