Focus on research methods: Whatever happened to qualitative description?

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 334-340

  Sandelowski, Margarete ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Description and interpretation; Qualitative content analysis; Qualitative description; Qualitative research methods

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NURSING RESEARCH; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0034241415     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-240x(200008)23:4<334::aid-nur9>3.0.co;2-g     Document Type: Article

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