title: Reporting qualitative research in health informatics: REQ-HI recommendations.
abstract: To develop a set of recommendations for authors of qualitative studies in the field of health informatics, we conducted an extensive literature search and also manually checked major journals in the field of biomedical informatics and qualitative research looking for papers, checklists, and guidelines pertaining to assessing and reporting of qualitative studies. We synthesized the found criteria to develop an initial set of reporting recommendations that are particularly relevant to qualitative studies of health information technology systems. This paper presents a preliminary version of these recommendations. We are planning to refine and revise this version using comments and suggestions of experts in evaluation of health informatics applications and publish a detailed set of recommendations.
authors: Department of Medical Informatics, Urmia University of Medical Science, Iran.
authors: Zahra
authors: Z
authors: Niazkhani
authors: Habibollah
authors: H
authors: Pirnejad
authors: Jos
authors: J
authors: Aarts
authors: Samantha
authors: S
authors: Adams
authors: Roland
authors: R
authors: Bal
mesh_terms: D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006262:Health; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards*; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends*; D012107:Research Design