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April 22, 2025Hospital Pediatrics

Qualitative Approaches in Health Services Research: A Methodological Primer

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ASAilyn SierpeJLJoAnna K. LeyenaarCSCatherine Saunders

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Overview

Methodological primer demonstrates the utility of qualitative research in health services, highlighting its role in scaffolding quantitative evidence.

Key Points

  • Introduce core qualitative methodologies, data collection strategies, and analytic rigor for health services researchers.
  • Synthesized fundamental qualitative research concepts, data collection techniques, and analytic frameworks.
  • Developed a conceptual model framing qualitative inquiry as structural scaffolding across the hierarchy of evidence.
  • Positioned qualitative research as a rigorous method for uncovering complex social dynamics, beliefs, and patient experiences.
  • Established a framework where qualitative data generates new hypotheses and provides critical context to quantitative outcomes.

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Sierpe et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0f2c6504e2b0ba896ca1dfhttps://doi.org/10.1542/hpeds.2024-007978
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