"A quantitatively oriented summary of qualitative findings (as opposed to data being transformed) developed to accommodate the distinctive features of qualitative surveys. The approach includes the extraction, grouping, and formatting of findings, and the calculation of frequency and intensity effect sizes, which can be used to produce mixed research syntheses and to conduct ‘posteriori’ analyses of the relationship between reports and findings. Meta-summaries can serve as a basis for a further synthesis." (Sandelowski M, 2003)
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References
Sandelowski, M., & Barroso, J. (2003). Creating metasummaries of qualitative findings. Nursing research, 52(4), 226-233. Full Text