Qualitative Research in Cardiology: To Be Virtuous or Fail

Qualitative research is an aristocracy among research methods. Being capable to reach the understanding of events so deep and individual that unattainable for quantification, it requires the same level of capacities from an investigator. In cardiology, biomedical in her origins, novel patient-centered paradigm demands new understanding of the relevance: the relation of scientific findings with clinical application, which, from this point of view, involves the person’s biopsychocultural wholeness. Essential controversy originates from the positivistic impossibility of generalization of qualitative findings, and their broadly assumed fallibility. The results of a study depend on the personality of researcher: the interpreter. If such personality, being invited to another person’s realm, is not enough virtuous, the results of research will be vain. This article focuses on the need and possibility of implementation qualitative research to cardiovascular science on the way to patientcentered paradigm of healthcare. Some argumentation provided, as some literary review of recent qualitative trials in cardiovascular field.