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Using CAQDAS in the analysis of foundation trust hospitals in the National Health Service: mustard seed searches as an aid to analytic efficiency

Dempster, Paul G., Woods, David K. and Wright, John (2013) Using CAQDAS in the analysis of foundation trust hospitals in the National Health Service: mustard seed searches as an aid to analytic efficiency. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 14 (2). ISSN 1438-5627

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Abstract

This article reflects on the development of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) briefly before describing how the software can be harnessed to aid the process of research. It shows how data from a multi-user project looking at governance in UK Foundation Trust hospitals was enhanced and made clearer through the application of a specific method of gathering and coding data using a qualitative data analysis software package: Applying searches based on word frequency counts within NVivo 8 provided an initial categorisation of topics in an efficient manner allowing for a targeted examination of the overall data. This technique has been called by us the Mustard seed approach as it starts small and builds into something bigger over time.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/...
Additional Information: © 2013 FQS
Divisions: Social Policy
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Date Deposited: 07 Jun 2013 15:10
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2024 05:52
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/50692

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