TY - BOOK AU - Stommel,Manfred AU - Wills,Celia TI - Clinical research: concepts and principles for advanced practice nurses SN - 0781735181 (alk. paper) AV - RT81.5 .S86 2004 U1 - 616.0072 21 PY - 2004/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins KW - Nursing KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Research Design KW - Local KW - Qualitative research KW - Observation KW - methods KW - Nursing Theory KW - Data Collection KW - Clinical Nursing Research KW - Clinical medicine N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1. Advanced practice nursing and the integration of research into clinical practice -- Ch. 2. The vocabulary of research and overview of the research process -- Ch. 3. The logic of causal inference in experimental studies -- Ch. 4. The design and analysis of studies with separate control groups -- Ch. 5. The design and analysis of repeated-measures experiments -- Ch. 6. Quasi-experimental studies for clinical settings -- Ch. 7. The analysis of quasi-experiments -- Ch. 8. Introduction to observational studies -- Ch. 9. Cohort studies -- Ch. 10. Case-control studies -- Ch. 10. Survey studies -- Ch. 12. Qualitative research approaches -- Ch. 13. Concepts of measurement and measurement error -- Ch. 14. Judging the quality of measurement -- Ch. 15. Outcome measures for research and practice -- Ch. 16. Data collection techniques -- Ch. 17. Analysis of existing data -- Ch. 18. Qualitative approaches to data collection and interpretation -- Ch. 19. Introduction: key concepts in sampling -- Ch. 20. The logic of statistical inference after probability sampling -- Ch. 21. Qualitative approaches to sampling -- Ch. 22. Surveying: making use of research literature -- Ch. 23. Designing and implementing small-scale clinical studies -- Ch. 24. Ethical issues in research involving human subjects -- Ch. 25. Sources of funding for clinical studies -- Ch. 26. Dissemination of research findings to promote changes in practice and policy ER -