Chapters 1-5, 7-14, 16-19, 21-26, 29 & 6

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Across
  1. 5. an individual who guides the discussion according to a written set of questions or topics to be covered
  2. 6. gather data from the same people, usually from a general population, more than once
  3. 7. the conscientious integration of current best evidence with clinical expertise and patient preferences in making clinical decisions
  4. 10. the process of selecting a portion of the population for a study
  5. 12. reasons that an inference could be wrong
  6. 18. involves selecting cases that meet a predetermined criterion of importance
  7. 20. a sampling strategy where some participants from one strand are in the other strand
  8. 21. a design that emerges in the field as the study unfolds
  9. 23. the process of using multiple referents to draw conclusions about what constitutes the truth
  10. 24. a technique where researchers select time periods during which observations will occur
  11. 25. attempt to describe large segments of the human experience
Down
  1. 1. used to estimate a population parameter from a sample statistic
  2. 2. a technique often used to avoid biases stemming from participants' or research agents' awareness of group status or study hypotheses
  3. 3. focuses on discovering solutions to immediate problems
  4. 4. involve several rounds of questioning with an expert panel to achieve consensus
  5. 8. provide participants with more information or an opportunity to air complaints
  6. 9. a review that methodically integrates research evidence about a specific research question using careful sampling and data collection procedures that are spelled out in advance in a protocol
  7. 11. used when the dependent variable of interest is a time interval
  8. 13. a system of classifying and organizing terms
  9. 14. involves making sense of study results and examining their implications
  10. 15. the process of transforming data into symbols-usually numbers
  11. 16. the instrument's ability to identify noncases correctly
  12. 17. the value that occurs most frequently in a distribution
  13. 19. the specific query researchers want to answer in addressing the research problem
  14. 22. a careful appraisal of a study's strengths and weaknesses