Qualitative research exposes and explores important aspects of the pain experience that are inaccessible to other approaches.Qualitative work adopts a different epistemological and ontological perspective to quantitative work.Qualitative research is not well established in the field of pain, but is growing.More interpretative engagement with qualitative data is required.
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