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Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics

01 June 2005

Nurse Researcher

Book Review

Strong quantitative research methods are one of the patient’s strongest safeguards against dangerous bias and prejudice on the part of researchers. In addition, the...

Statistics with Confidence

01 December 2002

Nurse Researcher

Issue and resarch

Fine tuning the day surgery process

13 October 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

IT IS NOW recognised that the patient’s perspective is important in the planning and evaluation of health care. In no other area of health service delivery is this...

Social influence and the recording of blood pressure by student nurses: an experimental study

01 April 2001

Nurse Researcher

Issues in research

Martin Semple and colleagues discuss an experiment to investigate the influence of previously charted blood pressure recordings on the recording of blood pressure by...

The learning curve: the advantages and disadvantages in the use of focus groups as a method of data collection

01 July 2004

Nurse Researcher

issues in research

Introduction Focus groups have become a regularly used research method within the health and social care arena (Webb and Kevern 2001). They have been defined as...