Table 2 Search strategy used to identify qualitative articles published in eligible journals during 1999 to 2008
Data element | Search strategy |
|---|---|
Numerator (total number of empirical qualitative articles published) | journal title AND (qualitative research OR interviews as topic OR focus groups) NOT (comment OR editorial OR letter OR news) |
Denominator (total number of empirical research articles published) | journal title NOT (comment OR editorial OR letter OR news) |