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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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    <namePart>Beck, Cheryl Tatano.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Wolters Kluwer Health /Lippincott Williams &amp; Wilkins</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2014</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2014</dateIssued>
    <edition>8th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xviii, 493 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction to nursing research in an evidence-based practice environment -- Fundamentals of evidence-based nursing practice -- Key concepts and steps in qualitative and quantitative research -- Reading and critiquing research articles -- Ethics in research -- Research problems, research questions, and hypotheses -- Finding and reviewing research evidence in the literature -- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks -- Quantitative research design -- Sampling and data collection in quantitative studies -- Measurement and data quality -- Statistical analysis of quantitative data -- Rigor and interpretation in quantitative research -- Qualitative designs and approaches -- Sampling and data collection in qualitative studies -- Analysis of qualitative data -- Trustworthiness and integrity in qualitative research -- Mixed methods and other special types of research -- Systematic reviews : meta-analysis and metasynthesis.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Denise F. Polit, Cheryl Tatano Beck.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Nursing</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Evidence-Based Nursing</topic>
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