PubMed includes saved search strategies (queries) that may help in the identification of literature relevant to health services research, including qualitative research.
Instructions for Duke users:
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Connect to PubMed.
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Under PubMed Tools, choose Topic-Specific Queries.
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Choose Health Services Research (HSR) Queries.
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Select category Qualitative Research and choose narrow (usually preferable) or broad scope. [Note: To see what this actually searches, click on filter table.]
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Type topic terms in search box and click Go.
The narrow qualitative query looks for the words qualitative and themes in titles and abstracts of articles. A modification of this strategy is linked below. It includes the MeSH term Qualitative Research, which was added to the MeSH vocabulary in 2003. Click on the strategy to run the search in PubMed, using the Duke-specific URL. You may then add other concepts to the search.
qualitative research [MeSH] OR qualitative[tiab] OR themes[tiab]