Untangling the Misleading Message Around Saturation in Qualitative Nursing Studies
Sally Thorne
Abstract
How often have you read a nursing qualitative study in which an author decides to recruit a specific number of study participants and then by some miracle, when that number has been reached, claims that "saturation has been achieved"?
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