title: Designing research survey design--Part one.
abstract: Surveys are essential for discovering the incidence, distribution, and interrelationship of variables within a population. As such, it is important that we are able to critically read published surveys. This manuscript is the first of two dealing with survey research. Sampling and external validity are covered in this manuscript.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Giuffre
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design; D015983:Selection Bias