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Qualitative Health Research; Thousand Oaks; Jan 2001; Janice M Morse; Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Start Page: 3-4 ISSN: 10497323 Subject Terms: Research Risk assessment Abstract: Morse discusses the two types of risks in qualitative research. There are potential risks to investigators inherent in fieldwork, such as safety, and in working with qualitative data, such as emotional distress, and there are also risks in that the investigators must take to do excellent innovative and creative work. Full Text: Copyright Sage Publications, Inc. Jan 2001 I am fascinated with the different perceptions of risk in qualitative research. Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) differ in their requirements for review of qualitafive proposals that vary from expedited review (indicating that the risks for participants are no greater than in everyday life) to full review (implying that there may be some risk of harm to participants). In the 10 years of publication of QHR, some authors have referred

Second Edition Edited by Catherine Pope Lecturer in Medical Sociology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, England and Nicholas Mays Health Adviser, Social Policy Branch, The Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand The second edition of this popular guide to practising and interpreting qualitative research has been thoroughly updated and expanded with new chapters on action research and analysis of qualitative data. These additions give greater emphasis to analysing data and assessing the quality of others’ research, in line with the expansion of studies in this field. Contents now include: Qualitative methods in health care Interviews Focus groups Observation Consensus methods Qualitative case studies in evaluation Action research Analysing data Since the publication of the first edition, qualitative research has become an increasingly important research method in health care, both on its own and as a complement to quantitative research. The updating and expan