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Alrik Thiem; Lusine Mkrtchyan – Field Methods, 2024
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is an empirical research method that has gained some popularity in the social sciences. At the same time, the literature has long been convinced that QCA is prone to committing causal fallacies when confronted with non-causal data. More specifically, beyond a certain case-to-factor ratio, the method is…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Research Methodology, Benchmarking
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Konstantinos I. Bougioukas; Paschalis Karakasis; Konstantinos Pamporis; Emmanouil Bouras; Anna-Bettina Haidich – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
Systematic reviews (SRs) have an important role in the healthcare decision-making practice. Assessing the overall confidence in the results of SRs using quality assessment tools, such as "A MeaSurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews 2" (AMSTAR 2), is crucial since not all SRs are conducted using the most rigorous methods. In this…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Research Methodology, Decision Making, Medical Research