title: Evaluating a change to primary nursing: some methodological issues.
abstract: The purpose of this article is to review the work which has been carried out to evaluate the introduction of primary nursing and to highlight some of the methodological issues arising from research in this area. The author begins by considering the research design and outcome variables which have been frequently used in evaluative studies of primary nursing and then develops alternative explanations for the results which the researchers obtained.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hale
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D015401:Nursing Administration Research / Q000379:methods*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011321:Primary Nursing