Combining evidence in nursing research: Methods and implications

Nursing Research

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 56-62

  Whittemore, Robin ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrative review; Meta analysis; Metasynthesis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SAMPLING; SCIENCE;

HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; NURSING RESEARCH; REVIEW LITERATURE; STATISTICS;

EID: 13544267419     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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