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A Metadata Extraction Approach for Clinical Case Reports to Enable Advanced Understanding of Biomedical Concepts
Published on: September 20, 2018
"Casing" the research case study
1Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, #7460 Carrington Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Abstract:
The wide variation in definitions of the research case study can make it difficult for health sciences researchers to see all of the possibilities for this form of inquiry. Case studies are defined here as singular combinations of diverse arrays of methodological approaches directed toward maintaining "empirical intimacy" with the one or more temporally and spatially defined objects researchers construct and target for study. The cases selected for study are made as opposed to found through an iterative and theory-laden process called "casing." Case- as opposed to variable-oriented analysis helps researchers maintain "empirical intimacy" with the cases in their case studies. Case studies may be useful in enhancing programs of research in instrument and intervention development.
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