A Roving Museum offers a scarce time-budget audience access to interpretive narratives via a portable infrastructure, a mobile telephony application and a social media driven platform.
Our synthesis of findings was interpretive and narrative, and did not use a formal protocol.
To help capture the nurse's way of making sense of her personal, social and professional world as it evolved over time [ 17], the Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM) [ 18, 19] was chosen.
Because of the subjective nature of qualitative research and the potential for researcher bias, the analysis remained predominantly descriptive rather than interpretive, allowing patients' narratives speak for themselves.
Thematic analysis was used for exploration of this particular dataset because it offers a more theoretically flexible approach to identifying patterns within qualitative data sets than other approaches, such as Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA); narrative analysis or grounded theory approaches (Braun and Clarke 2006).
The main methods of qualitative synthesis include: meta-ethnography [ 11]; thematic synthesis [ 12]; critical interpretive synthesis [ 4]; narrative synthesis [ 13]; and meta-study [ 14- 16].
This then affects the language we use about healthcare, which is often diminished to the objective, ignoring the narrative and interpretive function of medicine [ 3, 4].
A qualitative meta-synthesis integrates and compares findings across different studies, and the accumulated knowledge may lead to development of a new theory, narrative or interpretive translation [ 9, 10].
