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Quality assurance/performance improvement projects.

M Giuffre
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Abstract

Most nurses' first attempt at research will be a quality assurance or performance improvement project. Unfortunately, these terms do not even appear in the indexes of most nursing research textbooks. The limitations and common pitfalls of this type of research is covered in this paper.

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M Giuffre. 1998. Quality assurance/performance improvement projects.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1089-9472(98)80049-x

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