Exploring the Audit Trail for Qualitative Investigations
- 1 July 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Nurse Educator
- Vol. 28 (4) , 175-178
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006223-200307000-00008
Abstract
The audit trail helps to establish the credibility of qualitative studies and serves to convince the scientific community of their rigor. The author describes the activities of the audit trail and explores the creation of its structures and processes. Excerpts of audit trails from qualitative studies are presented for faculty and students.Keywords
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