High-Quality Qualitative Research: Getting Into Gear

Zika Research Shifts into High Gear

The number of scientific articles mentioning Zika virus has nearly doubled in the past two months, a testament to both the intensity of ongoing efforts to expose its secrets and how far under the radar Zika had been prior to the current epidemic. With the biomedical research enterprise now in full swing, what are the latest advances and what new avenues are these findings opening up? First off,...

Qualitative research: getting started.

As scientifically trained clinicians, pharmacists may be more familiar and comfortable with the concept of quantitative rather than qualitative research. Quantitative research can be defined as “the means for testing objective theories by examining the relationship among variables which in turn can be measured so that numbered data can be analyzed using statistical procedures”.1 Pharmacists may...

Performance metrics as drivers of quality: getting to second gear.

Getting started with qualitative research: developing a research proposal.

The aim of this article is to illustrate in detail important issues that research beginners may have to deal with during the design of a qualitative research proposal in nursing and health care. Cristina Vivar has developed a 17-step process to describe the development of a qualitative research project. This process can serve as an easy way to start research and to ensure a comprehensive and th...

Getting research into policy and practice.