Tools to Assist Qualitative Reviewers

Cochrane Guidance (NEW)

Introduction of chapter 20 in the Cochrane handbook (PDF-119KB)
The role of the CQRM-group in supporting authors and review groups (in development)
Using qualitative evidence to inform effectiveness questions (PDF 361.1KB)
Writing a protocol that includes qualitative evidence (in development)
Searching for qualitative evidence (PDF-399KB)
Quality appraisal of qualitative evidence (PDF-269KB)
Data-extraction of qualitative evidence (in development)
Methods to synthesize and integrate qualitative evidence in Cochrane intervention reviews (in development)
Reporting the qualitative evidence synthesis in RevMan (in development)
Ongoing challenges and future methodological work (in development)

Conference and Seminar Proceedings
Toolkit to assist (trainers of) Qualitative Systematic Reviewers
Software

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINE REGARDING THE USE AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF REVIEW TOOLS:

Resources on this page are kindly provided by colleague researchers and trainers in the field of qualitative research.

All contributing authors delivered a written statement to the methods group, in which they allow others to put their training material on a public website. If, however, you intend to use these resources in your own training programs, please acknowledge the original author of the presentations and reference the training material properly. Feel free to contact the authors should you require further details on the materials.

If you would like to contribute to our toolkit, please download the written statement and mail your training material to nathan.tan@adelaide.edu.au.
Currently, we only include resources in English language. We hope to be able to offer training materials in other languages in nearby future.

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PROCEEDINGS

ESQUIRE Methods Workshop on Qualitative Evidence Synthesis
August 15-17 September 2009
Sheffield, UK
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Oceania Regional Qualitative Synthesis Symposium: The art and science of method
August 8th & 9th 2008
Adelaide, South Australia

Critical Appraisal of Qualitative Research (Download PDF - 444 KB)
Ways of Extracting Qualitative Evidence (Download PDF 460 KB)
Data Presentation: ways of presenting qualitative evidence synthesis (Download PDF 2.2 MB)
Developing Inclusion Criteria (Download PDF 2.8 MB)
Using Qualitative Evidence to Formulate Questions for Cochrane Protocol (Download PDF 1.7 MB)
Searching for Qualitative evidence: matching the strategy to the use of qualitative evidence within a Cochrane Intervention review (Download PDF 1.5 MB)
Methods to synthesise qualitative evidence alongside a Cochrane Intervention review (Download PDF 408 KB)
Integrating Qualitative Evidence Synthesis Synthesis (QES) in the Training Programs of Cochrane Centres and Branches: Results of a of a survey (Download PDF 340 KB)

There are a growing number of tools available to assist qualitative reviewers. If you can add to the this database of tools we would be really pleased to hear from you. Please contact us.