How to recognise a 'quality' grounded theory research study

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Elliott, Naomi ^a   Lazenbatt, Anne ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grounded theory; Nursing research; Quality criteria; Research methods

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NURSING RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS;

EID: 33645469883     PISSN: 08130531     EISSN: 14474328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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