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Analysing clinical practice guidelines. A method of documentary analysis
Author(s) -
Appleton Jane V.,
Cowley Sarah
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1997.19970251008.x
Subject(s) - visitor pattern , strengths and weaknesses , value (mathematics) , clinical practice , psychology , medicine , nursing , computer science , social psychology , machine learning , programming language
This paper will describe a method of documentary analysis used in a study examining the validity of clinical guideliness issued to health visitors to assist them in identifying families requiring increased health visitor support. This forms the preliminary work for a wider study examining how health visitors decide to increase support to vulnerable families. Although a number of published research texts dicuss the value of records and documents as important data sources for health service researchers, there is relatively little information avialable about the processes of documentary analysis. This paper offers one method for analysing clinical practice guidelines, it describes the development of a critique and analysis tool and expolres the strengths an weaknesses of this particular analysis instrument.