Research for evidence-based practice in healthcare / Robert Newell, Philip Burnard.

• Superior document: Vital notes
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Newell, Robert, 1954-
• TeilnehmendeR: Burnard, Philip.; Newell, Robert, 1954-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Vital notes.
• Physical Description: viii, 293 p. :; ill. (some col.).
• Notes: Rev. ed. of: Vital notes for nurses : research for evidence-based practice / Robert Newell, Philip Burnard. 2006.

Table of Contents

The research process : organising your research -- Choosing methodological approaches -- Searching the literature -- Ethics of healthcare research -- Basic concepts : sampling, reliability and validity -- Issues in qualitative data collection -- Case studies -- Ethnography -- Phenomenology -- A pragmatic approach to qualitative data analysis -- Limitations of qualitative research -- Sampling, reliability and validity issues in data collection and analysis -- Cause and effect, hypothesis testing and estimation -- Experimental and quasi-experimental approaches -- The single case experiment -- Randomised controlled trials -- Non-experimental approaches -- Surveys -- The role of statistics -- Evidence-based practice and clinical effectiveness -- Critical evaluation of research reports -- Writing a research report -- Getting research into practice.