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Audit or research – what is the difference?
Author(s) -
CLOSS S. J.,
CHEATER F. M.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1996.tb00259.x
Subject(s) - audit , confidentiality , process (computing) , sampling frame , psychology , medicine , business , computer science , accounting , environmental health , population , computer security , operating system
Summary• Audit and research are activities which have some characteristics in common and others which are rather different. • This paper presents working definitions of each process and then examines their attributes and interrelationships in some detail. • Areas covered include their purposes, what types of process they are, their theoretical bases, the methods used in each, sampling, the use of findings, confidentiality and the time frame of each. • If nurses are to use or undertake research and/or audit appropriately in their practice, it is important that the similarities and differences between the two are clear.