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    <title>Essentials of nursing research</title>
    <subTitle>appraising evidence for nursing practice</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Polit, Denise F.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Beck, Cheryl Tatano</namePart>
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    <publisher>Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams &amp; Wilkins</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2010</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">19uu</dateIssued>
    <edition>7th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xiv, 610 p. :  col. ill. ;  24 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Contents:	 Introduction to nursing research in an evidence-based practice environment -- Evidence-based nursing practice : fundamentals -- Key concepts and steps in qualitative and quantitative research -- Reading and critiquing research reports -- Ethics in research -- Research problems, research questions, and hypotheses -- Literature reviews : finding and reviewing research evidence -- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks -- Quantitative research designs --  Qualitative designs and approaches -- Specific types of research -- Sampling plans -- Data collection methods -- Measurement and data quality -- Statistical analysis of quantitative data -- Rigor and interpretation in quantitative research -- Analysis of qualitative data -- Trustworthiness and integrity in qualitative research -- Systematic reviews : meta-analysis and metasynthesis.</abstract>
  <targetAudience>NUR</targetAudience>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Denise F. Polit, Cheryl Tatano Beck.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Nursing</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Nursing Research</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Evidence-Based Nursing</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">RT 81.5 .P63 2010</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781609130046</identifier>
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