Revisiting case study as a nursing research design.

A Comparison of Case-Control and Case-Only Designs to Investigate Gene-Environment Interactions Using Breast Cancer Data

Background: The traditional methods of studying the gene-environment interactions need a control group. However, the selection of an appropriate control group has been associated with problems. Therefore, new methods, such as case-only design, have been created to study such interactions. The objective of this study was to compare the case-only and case-control designs using data from patients ...

Caught between a rock and a hard place.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To explore how nurse researchers in clinical positions experience the presence of a nursing research culture in clinical practice. BACKGROUND Higher demands in the hospitals for increasing the quality of patient care engender a higher demand for the skills of health professionals and evidence-based practice. However, the utilisation of nursing research in clinical practice...

Revisiting Retrospective Chart Review: An Evaluation of Nursing Home Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research

or trained Overall, the studies provided a sparse description of abstractor training and qualification, which limits the reliability of the method. Two studies reported that abstractor training or instruction was provided [34,35], and one study included that the data abstractors were highly experienced nurse data collectors [18]. Of note, it was clear by the description given in Hall et al. [1]...

Revisiting "Who gets care?": health equity as an arena for nursing action.

This article revisits and reaffirms Patricia Steven's earlier work on access to healthcare as an important arena for nursing action. Many of the conditions that affect access to healthcare, such as racism and oppression, also shape inequities in health outcomes. We propose a conceptualization of social justice that is consistent with addressing the conditions that influence health inequities. W...

Revisiting the road not taken: integrating palliative care into oncology nursing.