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Table 1 Seven steps of Noblit and Hare’s meta-ethnography [20]

From: The challenge of equipoise in trials with a surgical and non-surgical comparison: a qualitative synthesis using meta-ethnography

 

Seven steps of Noblit and Hare’s meta-ethnography (Noblit, 1988)

1.

Getting started

2.

Deciding what is relevant

3.

Reading the studies

4.

Determining how the studies are related

5.

Translating the studies into one another

6.

Synthesising translations

7.

Expressing the synthesis