Figure 1
The diagram shows a horizontal sequence of six rectangular boxes connected by right-pointing arrows. The first box reads “Formulating Research Question”. The second box reads “Systematic Literature Review”. The third box reads “Selecting Appropriate Studies”. The fourth box reads “Extracting Information from Studies”. The fifth box reads “Quality Assessment”. The sixth box reads “Presenting Findings”.The stages of implementing the meta-synthesis method. Source(s): Sandelowski and Barroso (2007)