This volume provides health care professionals with a comprehensive but readable guide to the design, conduct and interpretation of health services research. It strips the research process of its technical jargon, illuminating the methods of research by an extensive use of real examples. The common pitfalls of the design and interpretation of studies are reviewed, together with guidance on how to avoid them. The result is a user-friendly text which will enable all health care professionals to carry out research with confidence and success.
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This volume provides health care professionals with a comprehensive but readable guide to the design, conduct and interpretation of health services research. It strips the research process of its technical jargon, illuminating the methods of research by an extensive use of real examples. The common pitfalls of the design and interpretation of studies are reviewed, together with guidance on how to avoid them. The result is a user-friendly text which will enable all health care professionals to carry out research with confidence and success.
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One of the first recorded successful treatments, written on a tablet of stone, was by SEKHET'ENANACH, chief physician to one of the Pharaohs around 3000 BC, who 'healed the king's nostrils' (1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
health services research, snuff users, good research question Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Medical, Oxford University Press, World Health Organization, New York, Journal of the American Medical Association, Department of Health, Index Medicus, John Wiley, Medical Research Council, New England Journal of Medicine, Canadian Medical Association, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Cancer Research Campaign, Journal of Chronic Diseases, International Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Public Health Medicine, Macmillan Press, Medical Journal of Australia, United States, Bristol Cancer Help Centre, British Journal of General Practice, British Journal of Psychiatry, Health Bulletin, Health Studies, Open University Press New!
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- Introduction to Epidemiology by Micheal Alderson on 4 pages
- Adequacy of Sample Size in Health Studies by Stanley Lemeshow on page 105, page 120, and page 153
- An Introduction to Medical Statistics (Oxford Medical Publications) by Martin Bland on page 105, page 263, and page 265
- Practical Statistics for Medical Research (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science) by Douglas G. Altman on page 141, page 264, and page 265
- Just So Stories by Illus. Salter Rudyard Kipling on page 25, and page 40
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- Health Psychology in Practice by Susan Michie on page 310
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