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Multimethod research

Approaches for integrating qualitative and quantitative methods

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  1. the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

    Kurt C. Stange MD, PhD

  2. the Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

    Kurt C. Stange MD, PhD

  3. the Department of Family Practice and Community Health, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania

    William L. Miller MD, MA

  4. the Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska

    Benjamin F. Crabtree PhD

  5. the Group Health Foundation of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Patrick J. O’Connor MD, MPH

  6. Department of Family Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, U.C.R.C. Research Building #2, Suite 306, 11001 Cedar Avenue, 44106, Cleveland, OH

    Kurt C. Stange MD, PhD & Stephen J. Zyzanski PhD

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Stange, K.C., Miller, W.L., Crabtree, B.F. et al. Multimethod research. J Gen Intern Med 9, 278–282 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02599656

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