Clinical research
Subtitle: concepts and principles for advanced practice nurses
By: Manfred Stommel, Celia E. Wills
Contributors: Wills, Celia
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Nursing -- Research -- Methodology; Clinical medicine -- Research -- Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Advanced practice nursing and the integration of research into clinical practice; title: Ch. 2. The vocabulary of research and overview of the research process; title: Ch. 3. The logic of causal inference in experimental studies; title: Ch. 4. The design and analysis of studies with separate control groups; title: Ch. 5. The design and analysis of repeated-measures experiments; title: Ch. 6. Quasi-experimental studies for clinical settings; title: Ch. 7. The analysis of quasi-experiments; title: Ch. 8. Introduction to observational studies; title: Ch. 9. Cohort studies; title: Ch. 10. Case-control studies; title: Ch. 10. Survey studies; title: Ch. 12. Qualitative research approaches; title: Ch. 13. Concepts of measurement and measurement error; title: Ch. 14. Judging the quality of measurement; title: Ch. 15. Outcome measures for research and practice; title: Ch. 16. Data collection techniques; title: Ch. 17. Analysis of existing data; title: Ch. 18. Qualitative approaches to data collection and interpretation; title: Ch. 19. Introduction: key concepts in sampling; title: Ch. 20. The logic of statistical inference after probability sampling; title: Ch. 21. Qualitative approaches to sampling; title: Ch. 22. Surveying: making use of research literature; title: Ch. 23. Designing and implementing small-scale clinical studies; title: Ch. 24. Ethical issues in research involving human subjects; title: Ch. 25. Sources of funding for clinical studies; title: Ch. 26. Dissemination of research findings to promote changes in practice and policy