Transcription of What is a case study? - Evidence-Based Nursing
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What is a case study? - Evidence-Based Nursing
Research made simple Evid Based Nurs: first published as on 16 November 2017. Downloaded from on October 2, 2019 by guest. Protected by copyright. What is a case study ? Roberta Heale,1 Alison Twycross2. 1. School of Nursing , Laurentian What is it? would involve collecting several different types of data. University, Sudbury, Ontario, case study is a research methodology, typically seen in This is illustrated in example 1 below. Canada social and life sciences. There is no one definition of case Using a multiple- case research study allows for a 2. School of Health and Social more in-depth understanding of the cases as a unit, study However, very simply a case study can Care, London South Bank through comparison of similarities and differences of the be defined as an intensive study about a person, a group of University, London, UK.
cases will provide a better answer to a research ques-tion than if only one case is examined, hence the multi-ple-case study. Stake asserts that the cases are grouped and viewed as one entity, called the quintain.6 ‘We study what is similar and different about the cases to under-stand the quintain better’.6 Method
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