Uncovering the common ground in qualitative inquiry: Combining quality improvement and phenomenology in clinical nursing research

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 532-548

  Gullick, Janice ^a,b   West, Sandra ^b  

^a ANZAC Research Institute   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Nursing; Nursing quality; Patient care; Patient centredness; Patient perception; Phenomenology; Qualitative research; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84863609568     PISSN: 09526862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09526861211246485     Document Type: Article

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