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Exploring 'exceptional' or unusual courses of disease : methodology and learning outcomes / Anita Salamonsen.

By: Material type: TextSeries: SAGE research methods. CasesPublisher: London : SAGE Publications, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781473947016 (ebook) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.5072 23
LOC classification:
  • R852
Online resources: Based on a Scandinavian research project, this article describes and discusses unusual/exceptional cases and how they may be approached methodologically. The aim of the presented project was to explore patient-defined unusual/exceptional positive courses of multiple sclerosis and cancer related to the use of complementary and alternative medicine. Qualitative and mixed research designs are suited in the study of unusual courses because they are individual and contain subjective and experience-based knowledge. In the presented research project, such in-depth knowledge contributed to several important hypotheses for further research.
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Based on a Scandinavian research project, this article describes and discusses unusual/exceptional cases and how they may be approached methodologically. The aim of the presented project was to explore patient-defined unusual/exceptional positive courses of multiple sclerosis and cancer related to the use of complementary and alternative medicine. Qualitative and mixed research designs are suited in the study of unusual courses because they are individual and contain subjective and experience-based knowledge. In the presented research project, such in-depth knowledge contributed to several important hypotheses for further research.

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