Across
- 3. Often used to avoid biases stemming from participants' or research agents' awareness of group status or study hypotheses
- 5. Achieved to the extent that the research methods engender confidence in the truth of the data and in the researcher's interpretations
- 7. Groups that require additional protection
- 9. Statistics that are based on laws of probability
- 10. The extent to which the sample is similar to the population and avoids bias
- 11. Systematic inquiry to develop knowledge about issues of importance to nurses
- 12. Measurement that classifies characteristics into mutually exclusive categories
- 13. Another term for concepts researchers investigate
- 14. Used in observations to record the occurrence or frequency of designated behaviors, events, or characteristics
- 15. An initiative undertaken by a panel of health measurement experts to classify and define key measurement properties
- 16. Research review that is a written summary of evidence on a research problem
Down
- 1. Makes predictions about the values of one variable based on values of a second variable
- 2. Reasons that an inference could be wrong
- 4. Term used primarily about system-wide efforts to enhance systematic change in clinical practice or policies
- 6. The specific query researchers want to answer in addressing the research problem
- 8. Designed to document the needs of a group or community