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Splitting (creating more than one separate code from a single initial code) splicing (fusing smaller codes together) and linking (clustering smaller codes together around a common theme) were used to develop the coding and construct a representation of the data that remained true to the raw data (grounded) while moving towards higher order interpretation [ 30].
In the same way a primary study might move from descriptive to explanatory analysis [ 32], a meta-ethnography can proceed from reciprocal translation to a higher order interpretation which distils the translations into more than the parts alone imply – a "line of argument" synthesis.
Our comparative analysis supports the assertion that the qualitative component of mixed methods studies is less likely to be reported well and less likely to provide the kind of thick description necessary for higher order interpretation that systematic reviews of qualitative research demand.
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This is an interpretive method that seeks to create higher order interpretations, and tends to be suited to researchers using inductive methods of research seeking to explore a phenomenon rather than answer a predefined question [ 18].
Emphasis in this manuscript is on presenting first order interpretations (descriptive level), rather than higher order interpretations connecting themes to deeper theoretical constructs [ 17].
The method can certainly help arrive at higher order interpretations and generate theory from multiple studies and also usually provides more information on the methods of the review than is the case in traditional narrative reviews.
The synthesis into higher order interpretations grounded in the findings of the individual studies – the focus of our discussion below– was developed iteratively through discussion and writing, using these categories and sub-categories as a starting point.
Now that we have generated GENE-to-disease/phenotype summaries and DISEASE/PHENOTYPE-to-gene summaries for both mouse and human, they can be used for systematic analysis, comparison, and integrating of orthologous data with the goal of providing higher order interpretations of human disease and mouse genetically determined phenotypes.
Because this study did not require identifying other research, we organized our analysis around the final four steps of this approach outlined by Noblit and Hare: 1) identifying relations between the studies, 2) translating them into one another, 3) synthesizing these translations into higher order interpretations, and 4) communicating the findings (56).
For this study, where the focus and studies were already identified at the start, we based our synthesis around the final four steps of this approach: 1) identifying relations between the studies, 2) translating them in to one another, 3) synthesising these translations into higher order interpretations and then, lastly, 4) communicating the findings [ 33].
The identification of consciousness with "perceiving that [one] does perceive" raises again the specter of the higher-order interpretation.[12] But there are good reasons to think that a higher-order theory won't work for Locke (see Coventry and Kriegel 2008 and Weinberg 2008).
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