Across
- 5. index of relative risk for each predictor
- 6. qualitative study rooted in philosophy
- 9. summarizes overall study goal, identifies key concepts and the population
- 10. type of measurement that involves the ranking of objects based on their relative standing on an attribute
- 14. dividing population size by desired sample size
- 16. attempt to describe large cements of human experience
- 17. analyzing outcomes only for those who received the full treatment
- 18. qualitative and quantitative data are arrayed in a spreadsheet type matrix
- 20. people being studied
- 21. review by single member of IRB
- 22. source that is original description of a study prepared by the researchers
- 23. used to avoid biases stemming from participants; or research agents; awareness of group status or study hypothesis
- 24. whether the instrument appears to be measuring the appropriate construct
- 25. meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology
- 26. ratio between citations to a journal and recent citable items published
Down
- 1. used to test hypothesis about differences in proportions
- 2. demonstrated by ongoing self-scrutiny to enhance the likelihood that interpretations are valid and grounded in data
- 3. system wide efforts to enhance systematic change in clinical practices or policies
- 4. fully laid out tables without numbers in them
- 7. selects integral behaviors or events of a special type for observation
- 8. sampling decisions are guided in an ongoing fashion by the emerging theory
- 11. examines quality and effectiveness of health care and nursing services
- 12. gather data from same people usually of general population, more than once
- 13. involves a tabulation of the frequency with which certain themes or relations are supported by the data
- 15. National Institute of Nursing Research; affirms stature of nursing research in US
- 19. type of note that documents observers' thoughts about their strategies