Focus on Qualitative Methods Endings, Secrets, and Silences: Overreading in Narrative Inquiry

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 551-557

  Poirier, Suzanne ^a   Ayres, Lioness ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b West Suburban Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Narrative inquiry; Overreading; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF DISCLOSURE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SELF DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0031466058     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-240x(199712)20:6<551::aid-nur9>3.3.co;2-b     Document Type: Article

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