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Getting started in health research / David Bowers, Allan House, David Owens.
Holman Biotech Commons R852 .B69 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowers, David, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Research.
- Medicine.
- Biology--Research.
- Biology.
- Biomedical Research--methods.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biomedical Research--methods.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
- Summary:
- Bowers et al. (Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, U. of Leeds, UK) introduce health research to junior doctors, nurses, therapists, health educators, and allied health professionals with little or no research experience, leading them through the process of study design, data collection and analysis, writing up results, and submission for publication, and covering both quantitative and qualitative projects. They address questions, tasks, and potential difficulties through the experiences of two fictional researchers. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Part I Limbering Up
- 1 Turning Your General Aim Into a Specific Question 3
- 2 Taking a Preliminary Look at What Has Already Been Done 9
- Part II On Your Marks
- 3 Coming Up With an Initial Plan of Action 21
- 4 Carrying Out a Systematic Search 26
- 5 Building a Team 34
- Part III Get Set
- 6 Choosing the Best Study Design 43
- 7 Selecting Samples for Quantitative Research 47
- 8 Selecting Samples for Qualitative Research 56
- Part IV Wait For It
- 9 Deciding What Information to Collect 63
- 10 Tackling Confounders 68
- 11 How Many People to Study? 76
- 12 Getting Ready for a Qualitative Analysis 82
- 13 Getting Ready for a Quantitative Analysis 85
- 14 Writing Your Final Protocol 89
- 15 Arranging Funding 94
- 16 Getting Permission to Go Ahead 100
- Part V Go!
- 17 Recruiting the Participants 113
- 18 Collecting and Recording the Data 119
- 19 Living With (and Without) the Data 127
- Part VI Staying the Course
- 20 Taking Stock 135
- 21 Making Sense of Your Results - the Quantitative Case 136
- 22 Making Sense of Your Results - the Qualitative Case 144
- Part VII The Finishing Line
- 23 Writing a Research Paper 151
- 24 Setting Out Your Findings 156
- 25 Writing Your Discussion 164
- 26 Writing a Thesis or Other Report 168
- 27 Dealing With Journals 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781405191487
- 1405191481
- OCLC:
- 697768681
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