A protocol to develop a Quality Assessment Tool for Realist Synthesis (QUATRES)

Ferdinand C. Mukumbang; Brynne Gilmore; Rebecca Hunter; Sara Dada; Sonia Dalkin; Andrew Booth

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0332250

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A protocol to develop a Quality Assessment Tool for Realist Synthesis (QUATRES)

Ferdinand C. Mukumbang ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ferdie@uw.edu

Affiliation Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1441-2172

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Brynne Gilmore,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UCD Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education and Innovation in Health Systems (UCD IRIS Centre), Dublin, Ireland, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Rebecca Hunter,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Sport Sciences Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, England
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Sara Dada,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UCD Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education and Innovation in Health Systems (UCD IRIS Centre), Dublin, Ireland, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3910-1856

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Sonia Dalkin,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Andrew Booth

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Sheffield Centre of Health and Related Research (SCHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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A protocol to develop a Quality Assessment Tool for Realist Synthesis (QUATRES)

Ferdinand C. Mukumbang,
Brynne Gilmore,
Rebecca Hunter,
Sara Dada,
Sonia Dalkin,
Andrew Booth

Published: September 10, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0332250

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