Measurement in Nursing and Health Research (4th Edition) [Repost]

This fourth edition presents everything nurses and health researchers need to know about designing, testing, selecting, and evaluating instruments and methods for measuring in nursing. Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition now contains only the latest, most cutting-edge measurement instruments that have direct applicability for nurses and health researchers in a variety of roles, including students, clinicians, educators, researchers, administrators, and consultants.
Using clear and accessible language, the authors explain in detail, and illustrate by example, how to conduct sound measurement practices that have been adequately tested for reliability and validity. This edition is enriched with topics on the leading edge of nursing and health care research, such as measurement in the digital world, biomedical instrumentation, new clinical data collection methods, and methods for measuring quality of care.
Key features:
Provides new and emerging strategies for testing the validity of specific measures
Discusses computer-based testing: the use of Internet research and data collection
Investigates methods for measuring physiological variables using biomedical instrumentation
Includes information on measurement practices in clinical research, focusing on clinical data collection methods, such as clinimetrics
Identifies the challenges of measuring quality of care and how to address them