Comparability work and the management of difference in research synthesis studies.
Comparability work and the management of difference in research synthesis studies.
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研究综合研究中的可比性工作和差异管理。
DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.08.041
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发表时间：
2007
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通讯作者：
Barroso,Julie
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作者：
Sandelowski,Margarete;Voils,CorrineI;Barroso,Julie
在方法上更具包容性的新要求，使人们对综合定性和定量研究的结果或混合研究综合产生了越来越大的兴趣。然而，被视为定义混合研究综合企业的多样性也被认为是对它的挑战，因为它加剧了比较看似不可比较的问题，从而使看似不可组合的组合成为可能。我们建议在这里，研究综合企业，一般来说，和混合研究综合企业，特别是需要可比性工作，即审查员施加相似性和差异的研究进行审查。需要管理的研究多样性本身并不是先验存在的，而是已经完成的可比性工作的结果，据此对什么构成方法和主题的多样性和一致性做出了判断。通过可比性工作定义的研究综合过程将系统评价的后台解释工作推向中心舞台，从而为解决所涉及的方法学问题奠定了新的基础。这些问题进行了探讨，在美国的艾滋病毒阳性妇女的抗逆转录病毒治疗依从性的实证研究的综合。
The new imperative to be more methodologically inclusive has generated a burgeoning interest in synthesizing the findings of qualitative and quantitative studies, or mixed research synthesis. Yet, the very diversity seen to define the mixed research synthesis enterprise is also considered to defy it as it intensifies the problem of comparing the seemingly incomparable to enable the combination of the seemingly uncombinable. We propose here that the research synthesis enterprise, in general, and the mixed research synthesis enterprise, in particular, entail comparability work whereby reviewers impose similarity and difference on the studies to be reviewed. The very study diversity requiring management does not exist a priori but rather is itself an outcome of comparability work already done whereby judgments have been made about what constitutes methodological and topical diversity and uniformity. Conceiving the research synthesis process as defined by comparability work moves the backstage interpretive work of systematic review to center stage and, thereby, sets a new stage for addressing the methodological issues involved. These issues are explored by reference to the synthesis of empirical studies of antiretroviral adherence in HIV-positive women in the US.