Writing usable qualitative health research findings

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1404-1413

  Sandelowski, Margarete ^a   Leeman, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

knowledge transfer; knowledge utilization; research, dissemination and utilization; research, qualitative

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; WRITING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH REPORT; UNITED STATES; WRITING;

EID: 84865658423     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312450368     Document Type: Article

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