title: Employing quantitative and qualitative methods in one study.
abstract: There is an apparent lack of epistemological rigour when quantitative and qualitative methods are combined in the same study, because they reflect opposing positivist and interpretive perspectives. When and how to use methodological pluralism is discussed in this article.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Mason
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008128:Logic; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D009742:Nursing Theory