Evaluating Research in Health and Social Care (Hardcover)

`This is an ambitious contribution to the ever-growing market for research textbooks. The book concludes with an excellent appendix on sources of literature... useful for postgraduate students and staff wishing to fill gaps and/or double-check their facts' - Physiotherapy `In lieu of serving up the usual fare of methods and applications to be chosen from at whim, it concentrates on clinicians with limited time who wish to evaluate research rather than necessarily do it themselves.... If you already have a book on research methods...this book will still fine-tune your antennae to the good, the bad and the cant' - The British Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information Management 'Recommended reading' - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Practitioners across the caring professions increasingly need to know where evidence can be found and to evaluate different forms of evidence with a critical eye. This invaluable collection includes exemplars of a wide range of research techniques and provides a critical commentary for each. The commentary is designed to tackle jargon and demystify the text, highlighting the compromises that need to be made in real world research designs and the complexity of controlling relevant variables. The book seeks to underline the challenges of interpreting and generalising results both for the researchers and for those who fund their work. This is a set book for the Open University course K302 Critical Practice in Health and Social Care.

General

Imprint:	Sage Publications Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Published in Association with The Open University
Release date:	May 2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	Roger Gomm • Gill Needham • Anne Bullman
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-7619-6490-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General
LSN:	0-7619-6490-8
Barcode:	9780761964902

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