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This chapter is the first of three devoted to describing qualitative methods for evaluating informatics interventions. Its major goals are to describe when qualitative methods are appropriate and to offer a general framework for understanding how studies using these methods are conducted. Chapters 15 and 16 provide much more detailed tours through the methods of qualitative evaluation.
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Qualitative methods can be especially useful at the beginning of a project because they can yield information in the form of a needs assessment. Later, after implementation, they can be extremely valuable if used to provide feedback for improving the information resource.
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Systems analysis processes attempt to be sensitive to the context into which the system will be placed and they are also iterative like qualitative processes.
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These methods are inductive and interpretive because they require the study team to be open minded, to learn from participants, and to offer explanations and describe the meaning of cultural attributes.
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Friedman, C.P., Wyatt, J.C., Ash, J.S. (2022). An Introduction to Qualitative Evaluation Approaches. In: Evaluation Methods in Biomedical and Health Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86453-8_14
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