Healthcare Research; Contents; contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART 1 THEORY AND PRACTICE; 1 Why healthcare research?; 2 Approaches to healthcare research; 3 Taking the first step: Developing a research proposal; 4 What do we know already? Searching the literature; 5 Can we trust the evidence? Critically reviewing a research paper; 6 Conducting ethical research in healthcare; 7 Quantitative research methods: Gathering and making sense of numbers; 8 Qualitative research methods: Gathering and making sense of words; 9 Making your case: Writing for your audience
Summary
"The authors of the rest of this book will set out what we mean by quality in research in the different contexts in which research is done and from the different theoretical perspectives from which researchers work. I want only to point out here some of the very basic issues that underpin the rest. This book will help clinicians who want this grounding to understand what is going on in research papers"--Provided by publisher
