title: Exploring the audit trail for qualitative investigations.
abstract: The audit trail helps to establish the credibility of qualitative studies and serves to convince the scientific community of their rigor. The author describes the activities of the audit trail and explores the creation of its structures and processes. Excerpts of audit trails from qualitative studies are presented for faculty and students.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, La Salle University, 1900 West Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA. wolf@lasalle.edu
authors.forename: Zane Robinson
authors.initials: ZR
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D009731:Nursing Audit / Q000379:methods*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D017712:Peer Review, Research / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards