The nurse practitioner (NP) student is seeking to learn more about palliative care patients' perceptions of the meaning of quality of life. Based on the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (OCEB) 2011 Levels of Evidence, which type of evidence will be most useful to the NP student's search?
A) Case-control studies
B) Nonrandomized controlled trials
C) Meta-synthesis of descriptive studies
D) Systematic review of randomized controlled trials
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