Focus on Quantitative Methods - Using Key Informant Methods in Organizational Survey Research: Assessing for Informant Bias

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-92

  Hughes, Linda C ^a   Preski, Sally ^b  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; NURSING RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH;

EID: 0031065086     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199702)20:1<81::AID-NUR9>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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