Archived Comments for: Overcoming the barriers to the diagnosis and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/ME in primary care: a meta synthesis of qualitative studies

Typing mistake in Methods section

3 April 2014

We would like to apologise for a typing mistake that was introduced in this manuscript.

Under the methods section, there is a list of stages of the meta synthesis that is currently printed as follows:

Stages of the meta synthesis

1. Identifying the literature:

topic selection,

searching for studies,

appraisal of studies.

2. Data analysis and interpretation:

a. extraction of main findings from the published studies, a. synthesis of main findings into themes to form an explanatory framework.

 It should be:

Stages of the meta synthesis

1. Identifying the literature:

a. topic selection,

b. searching for studies,

c. appraisal of studies.

2. Data analysis and interpretation:

a. extraction of main findings from the published studies,

b. synthesis of main findings into themes to form an explanatory framework.

Magdalena Morawska

Executive Editor

Competing interests