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"This is a valuable resource for readers seeking basic to advanced information on measurement. It should be on the bookshelf of all researchers, and a requirement for graduate nursing students."Score: 100, 5 stars--Doody's Medical Reviews
"...this book is a wonderful shelf reference for nurse researcher mentors and investigators who may need to explore content or use content to design, test, select, and evaluate instruments and methods used in measuring nurse concepts and outcomes."--Clinical Nurse Specialist
This fourth edition presents everything nurses and health researchers need to know about designing, testing, selecting, and evaluating instruments and methods for measuring in nursing. Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition now contains only the latest, most cutting-edge measurement instruments that have direct applicability for nurses and health researchers in a variety of roles, including students, clinicians, educators, researchers, administrators, and consultants.
Using clear and accessible language, the authors explain in detail, and illustrate by example, how to conduct sound measurement practices that have been adequately tested for reliability and validity. This edition is enriched with topics on the leading edge of nursing and health care research, such as measurement in the digital world, biomedical instrumentation, new clinical data collection methods, and methods for measuring quality of care.
Key features:
- Provides new and emerging strategies for testing the validity of specific measures
- Discusses computer-based testing: the use of Internet research and data collection
- Investigates methods for measuring physiological variables using biomedical instrumentation
- Includes information on measurement practices in clinical research, focusing on clinical data collection methods, such as clinimetrics
- Identifies the challenges of measuring quality of care and how to address them
Inhalt
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Part I Basic Principles of Measurement
1. Introduction2. Operationalizing Nursing and Health Research Concepts
3. Measurement Theories and Frameworks
Part II Understanding Measurement Design
4. Strategies For Designing Measurement Tools and Procedures5. Measurement Reliability
6. Validity of Measures
7. Standardized Approaches to Measurement
8. Measurement in Qualitative Research
Part III Measurement Via the Digital World
9. Uses of Existing Administrative, Hospital, Health Research and National Databases10. Computer Based Testing
11. Internet Data Collection and Issues of Data Privacy
Part IV Instrumentation and Data Collection Methods
12. Observation Methods13 .Content Analysis
14. Interviews
15. Questionnaires
16. Delphi Technique
17. Visual Analogue Scales
18. Magnitude Estimation Scaling
19. Guidelines for Writing Multiple Choice Items
20. Measurement of Physiological Variables Using Biomedical Instrumentation
21. Application of Measurement Principles and Practices in Clinical Research and Practice
22. Collecting Sensitive Information
23. Selection and Use of Existing Instruments
Part IV Measurement Issues
24. Ethical Issues25. Issues in Measuring Quality Care
26. Other Measurement Issues"