Evidence in Policy and Practice: What Kinds of Research Designs?

Journal of Social Work

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-23

  Qureshi, Hazel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

evidence based practice; hierarchy of research methods policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 9444229504     PISSN: 14680173     EISSN: 1741296X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468017304042418     Document Type: Article

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