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Clinical and research databases in healthcare research

01 July 2008

Nurse Researcher

General

This paper reports on the experiences of two nurse researchers sampling from clinical and research databases for the purpose of research. The authors focus on their...

A research routine to assess bias introduced by low response rates in postal surveys

01 October 2009

Nurse Researcher

issues in research

Low response rates to postal surveys potentially bias study results. We used three approaches to determine why 46 per cent of a sample were non-responders, and to...

Reducing admissions with social enterprises

09 July 2010

Emergency Nurse

Feature

This article refers to the results of an audit to illustrate how social enterprise rapid response teams can prevent unnecessary hospital admissions during the winter...

Using a patient at risk tool in the community

08 June 2011

Emergency Nurse

Feature

This article discusses the development and implementation of a patient at risk tool for use in the community by members of a multidisciplinary rapid response team....

Disaster response in an earthquake zone

01 April 2011

Emergency Nurse

Feature

The recent earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand posed several challenges to emergency service personnel charged with rescuing civilians trapped in collapsed...

Two-handed assessment in crisis response work

01 February 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

The South and East Belfast Trust crisis response team was formed in January 2004. During our first three months together we carried out benchmarking visits to more...

Barriers to questionnaire completion: understanding the AIDS/HIV patient’s perspective

24 January 2014

Nurse Researcher

HIV population

Aim To determine what encourages or discourages AIDS/HIV patients from completing questionnaires. Background Data from surveys can provide important information but...

Electronic surveys: how to maximise success

24 January 2014

Nurse Researcher

Data collection

Aim To draw on the researchers’ experience of developing and distributing a UK-wide electronic survey. The evolution of electronic surveys in healthcare research...

Survey postal questionnaire: optimising response and dealing with non-response

01 January 2009

Nurse Researcher

issues in research

In any survey, despite researchers’ best efforts in the use of scientific techniques, results can only be drawn and generalised based on the amount of information...

When is it safer to say nothing? Some considerations on biases in sampling

01 July 2004

Nurse Researcher

false

In nursing research, once one has a solid design, one has still to think about a sampling strategy and implementation. Too often, the paraphernalia of inferential...

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