Qualitative Research in Healthcare

This pre-conference workshop is planned for health care providers and will probe ethical issues in health research and evidence based practice. It will focus on the challenge to create a more just health care system, innovations to advance that goal, and the role of qualitative research in achieving it. Specific topics through which we will address this challenge are:

• Healthcare practitioners: Excellent on-site collectors of qualitative information in clinical settings
• The creative promise of phenomenology across disciplines
• Issues of diversity in qualitative research with providers and researchers who are predominantly white and middle class
• Improving dissemination of qualitative research by non-physician health professionals
• The differences (if any) between qualitative research and narrative pedagogy
• Qualitative research: An essential source of ethical innovation in health care