From text to codings: Intercoder reliability assessment in qualitative content analysis

Nursing Research

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-117

  Burla, Laila ^a   Knierim, Birte ^b   Barth, Jurgen ^a   Liewald, Katharina ^a   Duetz, Margreet ^c   Abel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^c FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intercoder reliability assessment; Qualitative research; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 41149134382     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NNR.0000313482.33917.7d     Document Type: Article

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