Using focus groups in general practice research.
Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the appropriateness of qualitative methods in family practice. This has been paralleled by an upsurge of interest in focus group discussions as a method. Drawing on the experience of using focus groups with general practice teams as one component of a multi-method study this paper explores emergent orthodoxies regarding the use of focus groups and reviews the contribution which this method can make to research in general practice.
Public Health Research Unit, Glasgow, UK.
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D005194:Family Practice; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design