Focus on research methods maintaining your focus in focus groups: Avoiding common mistakes

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 172-179

  Côté Arsenault, Denise ^a,c   Morrison Beedy, Dianne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Focus groups; Research methodology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SKILL; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; NURSING RESEARCH; REVIEW;

EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FOCUS GROUPS; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH;

EID: 17844388363     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20063     Document Type: Article

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