TY - JOUR

T1 - Further exploration of dissemination bias in qualitative research required to facilitate assessment within qualitative evidence syntheses

AU - Toews, Ingrid

AU - Booth, Andrew

AU - Berg, Rigmor C.

AU - Lewin, Simon

AU - Glenton, Claire

AU - Munthe-Kaas, Heather M.

AU - Noyes, Jane

AU - Schroter, Sara

AU - Meerpohl, Joerg M.

N1 - This work was supported in part by funding from the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (www.who.int/alliancehpsr/en/) (Grant number: SPHQ15-APW-1510), WHO, Norad (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation: www.norad.no), and the Research Council of Norway (www.forskningsradet.no) (Grant number: 237757/H10). S.L. is supported by funding from the South African Medical Research Council (www.mrc.ac.za). Dear Marjan, Attached is the pre-print. I checked with the lead author that this is the final submitted version (which it is) – BUT importantly – the journal Editor then asked for the title to be changed from: Dissemination Bias in Qualitative Research: conceptual considerations To Further exploration of dissemination bias in qualitative research required to facilitate assessment within qualitative evidence synthesis. The team did not submit another version of the preprint and the title was changed by the publisher at the proof stage. Hope this helps explain the title anomaly.

PY - 2017/8

Y1 - 2017/8

N2 - OBJECTIVES: To conceptualise and discuss dissemination bias in qualitative research.RESULTS: It is likely that the mechanisms leading to dissemination bias in quantitative research, including time lag, language, gray literature, and truncation bias also contribute to dissemination bias in qualitative research. These conceptual considerations have informed the development of a research agenda.CONCLUSION: Further exploration of dissemination bias in qualitative research is needed, including the extent of non-dissemination and related dissemination bias, and how to assess dissemination bias within qualitative evidence syntheses. We also need to consider the mechanisms through which dissemination bias in qualitative research could occur to explore approaches for reducing it.

AB - OBJECTIVES: To conceptualise and discuss dissemination bias in qualitative research.RESULTS: It is likely that the mechanisms leading to dissemination bias in quantitative research, including time lag, language, gray literature, and truncation bias also contribute to dissemination bias in qualitative research. These conceptual considerations have informed the development of a research agenda.CONCLUSION: Further exploration of dissemination bias in qualitative research is needed, including the extent of non-dissemination and related dissemination bias, and how to assess dissemination bias within qualitative evidence syntheses. We also need to consider the mechanisms through which dissemination bias in qualitative research could occur to explore approaches for reducing it.

KW - Journal Article

U2 - 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.04.010

DO - 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.04.010

M3 - Article

C2 - 28433676

VL - 88

SP - 133

EP - 139

JO - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

JF - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

SN - 0895-4356

IS - August

ER -