Parallels between research and diagnosis: the reliability and validity issues of clinical practice.
There are many similarities between the methods used to conduct research and the strategies clinicians utilize to improve the quality of the data collected for diagnostic purposes. This article reviews basic reliability and validity issues as they relate to clinical practice.
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Oregon Health Sciences University School of Nursing, Portland.
D015982:Bias; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D015986:Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results