Polit and Beck five and eight
Across
- 3. a source by a person unconnected to the research
- 5. scrutinizing personal values that could affect interpretation
- 6. tracking earlier studies cited in a reference list of a report
- 9. use of multiple sources to draw conclusions
- 11. evidence of the researcher's objectivity
- 12. cogent, convincing, and well grounded findings
- 15. believable, consistent and stable evidence
- 17. convenient means of abstracting and organizing information for a literature review
- 18. careful appraisal of a study's strength and weaknesses
- 19. process of transforming new data into standardized form
Down
- 1. a review written summary of evidence on a research problem
- 2. a popular electronic reference source utilized for nursing research
- 4. criteria for evaluating integrity and quality in qualitative studies
- 7. an influence that distorts study results
- 8. degree of confidence qualitative researchers have in their data
- 10. a source of the original description prepared by the researcher
- 13. accuracy and consistency of information
- 14. small scale trial run designed to test methods to be used in a larger study
- 16. using a pivotal study to search forward subsequent studies that cited it
- 17. database developed by U.S national library of medicine