title: Quality assurance/performance improvement projects.
abstract: Most nurses' first attempt at research will be a quality assurance or performance improvement project. Unfortunately, these terms do not even appear in the indexes of most nursing research textbooks. The limitations and common pitfalls of this type of research is covered in this paper.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Giuffre
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care