Abstract

Over the last decade there has been a growing emphasis on the importance of incorporating the views and perceptions of patients or, more generally, service users in health and social care. Qualitative methods often feature as a useful approach to measuring such views. The journal of J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care is of course not a novice to qualitative approaches, since it has published a series of introductory articles on qualitative methods. This paper reviews three very recent publications in the Brit Med J; each paper focusing on slightly different aspects of qualitative methods to measure patients’ views

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