Conspicuous invisibility: Shadowing as a data collection strategy

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1480-1499

  Quinlan, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data collection techniques; Health care studies; Institutional ethnography; Nurse practitioners

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849144007     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800408318318     Document Type: Article

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