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RLO: Qualitative and quantitative research
Resources
| Title/link | Description |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia: Qualitative research | Description of qualitative research on the contributory WWW encyclopedia Wikipedia. |
| Wikipedia: Quantitative | Description of the term quantative on Wikipedia. |
Glossary
- Randomised controlled trials (RCT): A form of clinical trial, or scientific procedure used in the testing of the efficacy of medicines or medical procedures
- Case-control study: One type of epidemiological study design
- Cohort studies: A study which follow two groups of patients for a period of time and compare an outcome measure between the two groups.
- Ethnography: The qualitative description of human social phenomena, based on months or years of fieldwork
- Phenomenological : Phenomenology is a current in philosophy that takes intuitive experience of phenomena (what presents itself to us in conscious experience) as its starting point and tries to extract the essential features of experiences and the essence of what we experience
- Transcripts : an interview that has been written down (usually from audio tape)
- Fieldwork notes : the notes taken when observing by someone doing observational or ethnographic research
© 2005 School of Nursing and Academic Division of Midwifery, University of Nottingham
Developer: Caroline Burton
Content author: Stephen Timmons
RLO released: 22nd August, 2005
Page last updated: 16 June, 2008