Tutorials - How to Read Articles - Qualitative Research

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Tutorials:

Brief Online Learning Tutorials (BOLTs): Snippets created by LISTEN project aimed to improve nurses' information literacy and information technology for evidence-based nursing practice.

Information Literacy for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice: An Introduction WCSU Libraries (Danbury, CT)
http://library.downstate.edu/EBM2/contents.htm

E-B Public Health Nursing http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/projects/ebphn/modulesmain.html

Evidence-based Practice Resources on the World Wide Web, Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio)
(http://www.acestar.uthscsa.edu/Resources_www.htm)

Evidence Based Practice Resource Area, Oncology Nursing Society (http://onsopcontent.ons.org/toolkits/evidence/index.shtml)

“Show Me the Evidence: Finding, Understanding, and Presenting the Data” Oncology Nursing Society web cast (http://www.ons.org/ceCentral/education/speaker.shtml)

Evidence-Based Practice, University of Iowa Dept. of Nursing Services and Patient Care (http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/nursing/rqom/evidencebasedpractice/index.html)

EBM Turorials*Free Online, St Louis Children’s Hospital Medical Library (http://beckerinfo.net/slch/2008/05/14/ebm-tutorials-free-online/)

Evidence-Based Searching tutorial (PDF) (http://beckerinfo.net/slch/tutorials/)

Evidence-Based Practice tutorial, Univ. of Minnesota Bio-medical Library (http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/learn/ebp/)

Evidence Based Nursing, Univ. of North Carolina Health Sciences Library (http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/tutorials/ebn/index.htm)

“Nursing Research: Show me the evidence” Saint Joseph Hospital (Orange, CA) Nursing Research Blog (http://evidencebasednursing.blogspot.com/)

Evidence Based Practice Tutorial for Nurses, Penn State (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/ebpt-07/index.htm)

Evidence-Based Knowledge Portal, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt Univ. (http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/biolib/ebmportal/login.html?refererurl=%2Fbiolib%2Febmportal%2Findex.html)

Evidence-Based Medicine, Drexel Univ. Health Sciences Libraries (http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/guides/ebm.html)

Resources for Evidence-Based Nursing, McMaster University Health Sciences Library (http://hsl.mcmaster.ca/education/nursing/ebn/index.htm)

Searching the Literature for Evidence-Based Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine (http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/EBM_litsearch/index.html)

Evidence-Based Nursing (EBN) Resources at ISU, Idaho State University (http://www.isu.edu/~franmarc/ebn.html)

How to read articles

Welk DS. Nurse Educ. How to read, interpret, and understand evidence-based literature statistics. 2007 Jan-Feb;32(1):16-20.

Qualitative Research:

• Ayelet Kuper, Scott Reeves, and Wendy Levinson. An introduction to reading and appraising qualitative research. BMJ 2008;337:a288

• Ayelet Kuper, Lorelei Lingard, and Wendy Levinson. Critically appraising qualitative research. BMJ 2008;337:a1035

• Scott Reeves, Ayelet Kuper, and Brian David Hodges. Qualitative research methodologies: ethnography. BMJ 2008;337:a1020

• Scott Reeves, Mathieu Albert, Ayelet Kuper, and Brian David Hodges. Why use theories in qualitative research? BMJ 2008;337:a949

• Brian David Hodges, Ayelet Kuper, and Scott Reeves. Discourse analysis. BMJ 2008;337:a879

• Lorelei Lingard, Mathieu Albert, and Wendy Levinson. Grounded theory, mixed methods, and action research. BMJ 2008;337:a567