Credibility: A Qualitative Data Measure

According to House (2015) "Credibility: A qualitative data measure focused on ensuring that the results represent the underlying meaning of the data." When it comes to credible sources there are many things to take into consideration when researching for credible articles. Some of the things that one has to take into consideration are:does the author credentials correlate with the research study, is there any form of conflict of interest for the author that can be considered as being bias, is the journal peer reviewed, does the publication have financial ties to the result of the study and lastly has the study been published within a sufficient time frame. As you can already tell there are many contributions when it comes to credible sources
And lastly as per Houser (2015) Reliability statistics document the degree to which an instrument is stable internally, among individuals, between raters, and over time. My articles consisted of credible data since it correlates to the underlying meaning of the data. As per Johnson, Guirguis, and Grace (2015) “An estimated 60% of all medication errors occur during transition of care. The National Transitions of Care Coalition defines a transition of care as the movement of patients between healthcare locations, providers, or different levels of care within the same location as their conditions and care needs change, [and] frequently involves multiple persons, including the patient, the family member or other caregiver(s), nurse(s), social worker(s), case manager(s), pharmacist(s), physician(s), and other providers.” The article goes into depth about statistics, personal experiences, and