One is the liveliest number: The case orientation of qualitative research

Journal/Book: Res Nurs Health. 1996; 19: 605 Third Ave, New York, NY 10158-0012. John Wiley & Sons Inc. 525-529.

Abstract: The epistemological thrust of qualitative research is case oriented. Regardless of qualitative methodology or sample size, qualitative research is quintessentially about understanding a particular in the all-together. Regardless of the kind of analytic technique employed, qualitative analysts are obliged, first and foremost, to make sense of individual cases. Looking at and through each case in a qualitative project is the basis from which researchers may make idiographic generalizations and move to cross-case comparisons to construct aggregations, syntheses, or interpretations of data from and faithful to individual cases.

Note: Article Sandelowski M, Univ N Carolina, Sch Nursing, Dept Womens & Childrens Hlth, 7460 Carrington Hall, Chapel Hill,NC 27599 USA

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