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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Palliat Med. 2017 Apr 17;6(3):253–269. doi: 10.21037/apm.2017.03.09

Table 2.

Methodological approaches (II)

Design Number of studies
Quantitative
 Survey 53
 Retrospective chart reviews 4
 Confirmatory factorial analysis 1
 Intervention 1
Qualitative
 Focus groups 4
 Grounded theory 8
 Qualitative description 4
 Content analysis 5
 Ethnography 3
 Phenomenology 1
 Other/unspecifieda 15
Mixed methods
 Surveys with Interviews 6
a

thematic analysis, framework analysis, in-depth Interviews.