Nursing Outlook
Volume 54, Issue 1 , Pages 10-16 , January 2006

“Meta-Jeopardy”: The crisis of representation in qualitative metasynthesis

  • Margarete Sandelowski, PhD, RN (FAAN)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Dr. Sandelowski, UNC-CH, School of Nursing, #7460 Carrington Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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PII: S0029-6554(05)00089-8

doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2005.05.004

Nursing Outlook
Volume 54, Issue 1 , Pages 10-16 , January 2006

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