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Getting to grips with the beast: the potential of multi-method operational research approaches

Accepted version
Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Abstract

Many of us will be familiar with the parable of the blind men and the elephant, beautifully retold by the 19th century American poet John Godfrey Saxe. In this tale, each man in turn describes the small part of the elephant they are touching (the flank, the tusk, the trunk, etc.), declaring with confidence that they know the true nature of the object (‘It's a wall!’, ‘A spear!’, ‘A snake!’).

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Keywords

Accreditation, Anaesthesia, Attitudes, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Female, Health Services Research, Humans, Male, Operations Research, Quality Control, Research Design, United Kingdom

Journal Title

BMJ Quality and Safety

Conference Name

Journal ISSN

2044-5415
2044-5423

Volume Title

26

Publisher

BMJ Publishing Group
Sponsorship
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (via University of Oxford) (330)