Design and Analysis of Clinical Nursing Research Studies

This invaluable text on the design and analysis of clinical research studies explains the basis of experimental design and statistics in a way that is sensitive to the clinical context in which nurses work. It uses data from actual studies to illustrate how to:

*design the study

*use and select data

*present research findings

*use a computer for statistical analysis.

The scope of the study designs and associated statistical techniques covered in the book allow both the beginning nurse researcher...