The value of qualitative research.
This article describes the dual nature of nursing research. It describes how qualitative research can present the patient's experience in a way that quantitative research cannot, but warns against over-reliance on qualitative methods. The article critically summarises the ideas of the European philosophers on which qualitative research is based.
University of Brighton, Sussex. w.f.clarke@bton.ac.uk
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D001294:Attitude to Health; D003625:Data Collection / Q000592:standards; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005007:Ethnology; D005060:Europe; D005086:Existentialism; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D016294:Models, Nursing; D033262:Narration; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000592:standards*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D036301:Qualitative Research; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*; D012660:Semantics; D014481:United States