Qualitative Research in Emergency Care Part I: Research Principles and Common Applications

摘要: Qualitative methods are increasingly being used in emergency care research. Rigorous qualitative can play a critical role advancing the research agenda by allowing investigators to generate hypotheses, gain an in-depth understanding of health problems or specific populations, create expert consensus, and develop new intervention dissemination strategies. This article, Part I two-article series, provides introduction general principles applied examples its common use research, describing study designs data collection most relevant our field, including observation, individual interviews, focus groups. In II this we will outline steps necessary conduct valid reliable project, with on interview-based studies. These elements include building team, preparing guides, defining obtaining adequate sample, collecting organizing data, coding analyzing data. We also discuss potential ethical considerations unique as it relates