DIEZ APORTACIONES DEL EMPLEO DE LA METODOLOGÍA CUALITATIVA EN UNA AUDITORÍA DE COMUNICACIÓN INTERNA EN ATENCIÓN PRIMARIA

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"Ten Contributions of the Use ofQualitative Methodology in a PrimaryCare In-House AuditQualitative methodology, originally belonging to the SocialSciences domain, has progressively incorporated to Health Researchto the scepticism of many and the admiration of others.Nowadays, validity and fiability of these qualitative techniquesis still questioned by a great amount of health researchers andtheir use provokes doubt among reviewers and other membersof the scientific community. This article presents as a fundamentalmeasure for the validity of the qualitative methodologyits precise use to approach determinate research objectives specificto them and, echoing the extra issue of the Health ServicesResearch on December 1999 on this methodology, gathers thecontribution of the use of these techniques from a complementarypoint of view, in a Internal Communication Audit conductedin the Primary Care Services of four Regional HealthSystems: Area II of the INSALUD (National Health Institute),Basque Health System, Canary Health System and AndalusianHealth System."