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Action research in health-care practice: Nature, present concerns and future possibilities:
Julienne Meyer,Lynn Batehup +1 more
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A cautious and pragmatic approach to the use of action research is advocated which is based on rigorous, systematic and visible methods of data collection, analysis and verification of findings.Abstract:
This paper begins by defining what is meant by action research and locates it as a form of a new paradigm of research. Next it describes some present-day concerns about its use in health-care pract...read more
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Qualitative methods for health research
Judith Green,Nicki Thorogood +1 more
TL;DR: Qualitative Methodology and Health Research Developing Qualitative Research Designs Responsibilities, Ethics and Values Managing and Analysing data developing Qualitative Analysis.
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Resilience in healthcare and clinical handover
TL;DR: Resilience can benefit patient safety efforts because it represents a change in emphasis from a traditional, reactive focus on errors to seeing humans as a defence against failure.
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Improving measurement in clinical handover
TL;DR: A conceptual framework to underpin a research agenda around the important patient safety topic of clinical handover is introduced and argues that measurement will identify gaps in knowledge about handover practice and promote rigor in the design and evaluation of interventions to reduce patient harm.
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Praiseworthy pragmatism? Validity and action research.
Kevin Hope,Heather Waterman +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued for the rejection of naïve rule-based formulae and for recognition of the impact of contextual and pragmatic concerns, so that the potential for the added value of action research might be realized.
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An Assessment of the Scientific Merits of Action Research.
Gerald I. Susman,Roger D. Evered +1 more
TL;DR: Action research can base its legitimacy as science in philosophical traditions that are different from those which legitimate positivist science as discussed by the authors, and the appropriateness of positivism is questioned as a basis for judging the scientific merits of action research.
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Three Dilemmas in Action Research With Special Reference to the Tavistock Experience
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Participatory Action Research and Action Science Compared: A Commentary.
Chris Argyris,Donald A. Schön +1 more
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Action research: what is it? How has it been used and how can it be used in nursing?
TL;DR: The central characteristics, three major approaches to action research that exist today and how action research has been used and can be used in nursing are addressed.