Bowers / House / Owens Getting Started in Health Research

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-29296-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

By the time you've read this book, you'll be ready to designyour own research project

Not everyone in clinical research is a scientific investigator.In fact, a large proportion of health professionals undertaking aresearch project are working in clinical care, as junior doctors,nurses or allied health professionals. For them a book that beginswith the basics of study design and takes them through all thestages to data collection, analysis, and submission for publicationis vital. Getting Started in Health Research is the answer.It provides fundamental information on:

* Framing the research question

* Performing the literature search

* Choosing the study design

* Collecting data

* Getting funding

* Recruiting participants

* Writing your paper

Lively case studies provide a continuous narrative, addressingthe pitfalls and problems that can occur.

Calling upon their vast experience of teaching health researchmethodology, these authors have turned a seemingly daunting taskinto a challenging and enjoyable prospect.

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Reviews of Understanding Clinical Papers

"...an excellent basis for all who intend to write scientifictexts as well as those reading, evaluating, and trying tounderstand the results..."

Clinical Chemistry, May 2007

"What makes this book unique is that each point presented isillustrated with excerpts from actual papers, often three or fourper chapter...this is a very effective teaching device."

Journal of the American Medical Association, December 26,2006

"What strikes the reader ... straight away is clarity ...promises to become a recommended text for undergraduate andpostgraduate courses."

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, September 2006

"This book should be an essential addition to the personallibraries of all health care workers . . . "

Oncology, 2002

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowers, David

House, Allan

Owens, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
PART I LIMBERING UP.
1 Turning Your General Aim Into a Specific Question.
2 Taking a Preliminary Look at What Has Already Been Done.
PART II ON YOUR MARKS.
3 Coming Up With an Initial Plan of Action.
4 Carrying Out a Systematic Search.
5 Building a Team.
PART III GET SET.
6 Choosing the Best Study Design.
7 Selecting Samples for Quantitative Research.
8 Selecting Samples for Qualitative Research.
PART IV WAIT FOR IT.
9 Deciding What Information to Collect.
10 Tackling Confounders.
11 How Many People to Study?
12 Getting Ready for a Qualitative Analysis.
13 Getting Ready for a Quantitative Analysis.
14 Writing Your Final Protocol.
15 Arranging Funding.
16 Getting Permission to Go Ahead.
PART V GO!
17 Recruiting the Participants.
18 Collecting and Recording the Data.
19 Living With (and Without) the Data.
PART VI STAYING THE COURSE.
20 Taking Stock.
21 Making Sense of Your Results - the QuantitativeCase.
22 Making Sense of Your Results - the QualitativeCase.
PART VII THE FINISHING LINE.
23 Writing a Research Paper.
24 Setting Out Your Findings.
25 Writing Your Discussion.
26 Writing a Thesis or Other Report.
27 Dealing With Journals.
Further Reading.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

David Bowers, Medical Statistician, University of Leeds Medical School
Allan House, Professor of Liaison Psychiatry, Leeds Institute of Health Science, University of Leeds
David Owens, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Leeds Institute of Health Science, University of Leeds