Abstract
This chapter outlines the importance of qualitative research as a method to provide answers to clinical questions arising in palliative medicine. Rather than being a chapter about how to ‘do’ qualitative research, it is a chapter that seeks to outline the role and purpose of qualitative research for palliative care by looking at the kind of questions qualitative research can answer, exploring qualitative research and its relationship to evidence-based practice, the role of qualitative research in the evaluation of complex interventions, and the importance to palliative medicine of undertaking systematic reviews of qualitative research. It addresses practical aspects of searching for qualitative research and how to assess for methodological strengths and limitations. In exploring these issues, it firmly establishes a place for qualitative research within evidence-based practice and for palliative medicine in particular.
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