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Measurement in nursing and health research / Carolyn Feher Waltz, Ora Lea Strickland, Elizabeth R. Lenz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waltz, Carolyn Feher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing--Research--Methodology.
- Nursing.
- Medical care--Research--Methodology.
- Medical care.
- Measurement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 492 pages).
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Springer, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The fourth edition of this text acknowledges the needs and interests of nurses and health researchers, discussing the significant increase in interdisciplinary research collaboration, and the growing emphasis on Evidence-based Practice as an important research outcome across all health disciplines. . This edition includes the ""best"" of the measurement content, strategies, and procedures, and provides the most up to date content, strategies, and procedures available that have direct applicability for nurses and health researchers in a variety of roles including, those of student, educator...
- Contents:
- Part I: Basic principles of measurement
- Introduction to measurement
- Operationalizing nursing concepts
- Measurement theories and frameworks
- Part II: Understanding measurement design
- Strategies for designing measurement tools and procedures
- Measurement reliability
- Validity measures / Karen L. Soeken
- Standardized approaches to measurement
- Measurement issues in qualitative research / Judith E. Hupcey
- Part III: Measurement via the digital world
- Using existing administrative and national databases / Meg Johantgen
- Computer-based testing / Louise S. Jenkins
- Internet data collection
- Part IV: Instrumentation and data collection methods
- Observational methods
- Content analysis
- Interviews
- Questionnaires
- The Delphi Technique
- Visual analog scales
- Magnitude estimation scaling
- Guidelines for writing multiple-choice items / Karen L. Soeken
- Measurement of physiological variables using biomedical instrumentation / Kathleen S. Stone, Susan K. Frazier
- Evaluation of measurement precision, accuracy, and error in biophysical data for clinical research and practice / Nancy A. Ryan-Wenger
- Collecting sensitive information
- Selection and use of existing instruments
- Part V: Measurement issues
- Ethical issues
- Issues in measuring quality care / Karen Beckman Pace
- Other measurement issues.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78268-126-4
- 1-282-53473-4
- 9786612534737
- 0-8261-0508-4
- OCLC:
- 609863107
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