title: Establishing valid and reliable criteria: a researcher's perspective.
abstract: From a researcher's point of view, criteria used in developing measures of nursing care should achieve certain standards: They should be based on a conceptual framework that fits the study. They should be reliable and valid and should measure important aspects of nursing care. They should be relatively simple to obtain as well as qualifiable for reporting and comparative purposes.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*