title: [The discourse of the criteria for quality in qualitative research].
abstract: Despite being a young discipline nursing science in the German-speaking area produces a growing number of research studies; many of them are qualitative in nature. Thus, it seems timely to raise questions about which quality criteria should be used to conduct and evaluate qualitative studies and to discuss how the scientific community in general and nursing science handle these issues. This article includes additional aspects of the recent quality discourse in German social and nursing science literature. For a better appraisal of the German-speaking discourse it will be taken a short comparison with current articles of English-speaking journals. A terminal discussion of the main results follows.
authors.affiliation: p_haas_unmuessig@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Pia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Haas-Unmüssig
authors.forename: Cordula
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection / Q000592:standards; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*