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| information that furthers our understanding of a phenomenon or question. |
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| the network that connects computers throughout the world. |
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| the process that nurses use to make clinical decisions and to answer clinical questions about delivery of care to patients. |
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| Categorized lists of articles from a wide range of journals, organized by topic, author and journal source available on Cd's or online. |
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| Terms that describe the topic or nature of the info sought when searching a database or the internet. |
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| A summary or condensed version of the research report. |
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| The end of a research report that identifies the final decisions or determinations regarding the research problem. |
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| The information collected in a study that is specifically related to the research problem |
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| A process that pulls information together or examines connections between pieces of information to make a clearer picture of all the information collected. |
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| A summary of results from a study without comparing the results with other information. |
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| A prediction regarding the relationships or effects of selected factors on other factors under study. |
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| The aspects of how the study was conducted that create uncertainty concerning the conclusion that can be derived from the study as well as the decisions that can be based on it. |
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| A synthesis of existing published writings that describes what is known or has been studied regarding the particular research question or purpose. |
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| The specific method(s) used to assign a number or numbers to an aspect or factor being studied. |
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| A quantitative approach to knowledge by taking the numbers from different studies that addressd the same research problem and using statistics to summarize those numbers, looking for combined results that would not happen by chance alone. |
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| A report of a study of a group of single research studies using qualitative methods. |
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| The methods section of a research report describes the overall process of implementing the research study, including who was included in the study, how information was collected, and what interventions, if any, were tested. |
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| More than two variables; multivariate studies examine three or more factors and the relationship among the different factors. |
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| Section of a research report that describes the gap in knowledge that will be addressed by the research study, or a statement of the general gap in knowledge that will be addressed in a study. |
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| Specific actions taken by researchers to gather information about the problem or phenomenon being studied. |
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| A numerical statement of the percentatge of the time the results reported would have happened by chance alone. For Example: a p value of .05 means that in only 5 out of 100 times would one expect to get the results of chance alone. |
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| Approaches to research that focus on understanding the complexity of humans within the context of their lives and tend to focus on building a whole or complete picture of a phenomenon of interest: qualitative methods involve the collection of information as it is expressed naturally by people within the normal context of their lives. |
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| Quality Improvement Study |
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| A study that evaluates whether or not certain expected clinical care was completed. |
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| A summary of the actual findings or information collected in a research study. |
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| A subset of the total group of interest in a research study: the individuals in the sample are actually studied to learn about the total group. |
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| A statistical term indicating a low likelihood that any differences or relationships found in a study happened by chance alone. |
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| The product of a process that includes asking clinical questions, doing a strucutured and organized search for theory-based information and research related to the question, reviewing and synthesizing the results from that search, and reaching conclusions about the implications for practice. |
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| Results in a qualitative research that are ideas or concepts that are implicit in the data and are recurrent throughout the data: abstractions that reflect phrases, words, or ideas that appear repeatedly as a researcher analyzes what people have said about a particular experience, feeling or situation. A theme summarizes and synthesizes discrete ideas or phrases to create a picture out of the words that were collected in the research study. |
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| An abstract explanation describing how different factors or phenomena relate |
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| A process of creating a verbal picture of an abstract idea. |
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| The verification of results from other studies. |
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| The section of a research report that summarizes, compares, and speculates about the results of the study. |
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| The ability to say that the findings from a particular study can be interpreted to apply to a more general population |
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| A study that is an exact duplication of an earlier study: the major purpose of a replication study is confirmation. |
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| A process of reflecting on the results of a study and putting forward some explanation for them. |
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| The overall plan or organization of a study. |
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| Statistical analysis involving only two variables. |
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| An orderly combination of carefully defined groups where there is no overlap among the categories. |
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| Reducing a large amount of data to numbers or conceptual groups in qualitative research; giving individual datum numerical values in quantitative research. |
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| The process of understanding, interpreting, and conceptualizing the meanings of imbedded in qualitative data. |
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| Organizing large amounts of data, usually in the form of words, so that it is broken down and labeled to identify to which category it belongs. |
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| The point at which all new information collected is redundant of information already collected. |
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| Descriptive information about the characteristics of the people studied. |
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| The outcome variable of interest; it is the variable that depends on other variables in the study. |
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| The spread among the values for a variable. |
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| A presentation of data that indicates the spread of how often values for a variable occurred. |
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| Those factors in a study that are used to explain or predict the outcome of interest; A.K.A. predictor variables because they are used to predict the dependent variable. |
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| A reasoning that goes into the process of drawing a conclusion based on evidence. |
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| The arithmetic average for a set of values. |
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| The value for a variable that occurs most frequently. |
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| A measure of central tendency that is the value in a set of numbers that falls in the exact middle of the distribution when the numbers are in order. |
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| Measure of central tendency |
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| A measure that shows the common or typical values within a set of values: this measure reflects the distribution or the center of the spread: the mean, the mode, and the median are the three most commonly used. |
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| A type of distribution for a variable that is shaped like a bell and is symmetrical. |
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| Tose factors in a study that are expected to affect the dependent variable in a specified. AKA. Independent Variables. |
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| A distribution where the middle o the distribution is not in the exact center; the middle or peak of the distribution is to the left or right of the center. |
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| A statistic that is the square root of the variance; it is computed as the average of differences in values for a variable from th mean value; a high number means that there was a wide range of values for the variable; a small number means there was a narrow range of values for the variable. |
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| Results in qualitative research that are ideas or concepts that are implicit in the data and are recurrent throughout the data; abstractions that reflect phrases, words, or ideas that appear repeatedly as a researcher analyzes what people have said about a particular experience, feeling, or situation. This summarizes and synthesizes discrete ideas or phrases to create a picture out of the words that were collected in the research study. |
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| A statistical analysis about only one variable. |
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| Some aspect of interest that differs among different people or situations; something that varies; it is not the same for everyone in every situation. |
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| The diversity in data for a single variable; a statistic that is the squared deviations of values from the mean value and reflects the distribution of values for the variable. |
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