Across
- 9. the specific query researches want to answer in addressing the research problem
- 10. acronym which quantifies "typical error" on a measure; is in the units of measurement of the measure itself
- 11. these groups require additional protection because they are unable to make a truly informed decision about study participation due to diminished autonomy or because circumstances heighten the risk of harm
- 14. divides the population into homogeneous strata to ensure representation of subgroups
- 17. procedures are increasingly being used in nursing research to untangle complex relationships among three or more variables
- 18. the study of the studies' methodologic rigor; Patterson's metastudy method integrates this component
- 19. a formal scrutiny of the research process and audit trail documents by an independent external auditor
- 20. observing from a fixed location
- 21. a common method of displaying frequency information geographically
- 23. designed to assess the effectiveness of clinical interventions can unfold in a series of phases
- 24. variables that have distinct categories that do not represent a quantity (ex. blood type)
- 25. this results when a bias operates in a consistent direction
Down
- 1. graphic, theory-driven representations of phenomena and their interrelationships using symbols or diagrams and a minimal use of words
- 2. information on the dependent variable is collected over a period of time before and after the intervention
- 3. used to test hypotheses about differences in proportions
- 4. questions permit respondents to reply in narrative fashion
- 5. articles available in this format, access is becoming easier through online sources
- 6. quantitative research that is typically conducted within this traditional method, which is a systematic controlled process
- 7. acronym; a pattern in which the value of the variable that is missing is related to its missingness
- 8. an overlapping concept with EBP that concern efforts to use research as a basis for clinical decisions; starts with a research-based innovation that gets evaluated for possible use in practice
- 12. one strand of design occurring prior to and informing the second strand
- 13. sampling to the point at which no new information is obtained and redundancy is achieved
- 15. a design that emerges in the field as the study unfolds
- 16. concerns the extent to which the implementation of a treatment is faithful to its plan
- 22. coding in which only variables relating to a core category are coded