title: Rank-ordering: a suitable method for nursing research.
abstract: Rank-ordering is an easy to use and easy to analyse method of organising comparative data for judgement. It is a method that can be used in nursing research whenever the opinions of people are sought. As it is very difficult to find a simple, practical guide for this procedure, data from a study on patients' perception of their privacy in hospital are used to illustrate the analysis and presentation of rank-ordered data.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bauer
mesh_terms: D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D018907:Privacy; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric