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Research and evidence in practice

Shane Erickson, Suzanne Hodgkin, Sharon Karasmanis, George Murley

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This book is an introduction to the use of research-based evidence in professional health-care practice. It will help you to understand the role of evidence in health care, including how evidence is developed, and how to interpret research methods and outcomes.

The 2nd edition of this resource will include the following chapters.

  • Chapter 1: Evidence for practice: what, why and how
  • Chapter 2: Asking questions to guide your search for evidence
  • Chapter 3: Acquiring the evidence
  • Chapter 4: The importance of critically appraising research
  • Chapter 5: Introduction to quantitative research design
  • Chapter 6: Internal and external validity
  • Chapter 7: Measurement: reliability and validity
  • Chapter 8: Measurement and analysis: outcome measures and scales of measurement in health research
  • Chapter 9: Introduction to descriptive statistics and statistical inference
  • Chapter 10: Treatment effects: mean difference, odds ratio, risk ratio and confidence interval
  • Chapter 11: Probability, statistical significance and power
  • Chapter 12: Introduction to qualitative research design
  • Chapter 13: The role of rigour in qualitative research
  • Chapter 14: Introduction to mixed methods designs
  • Chapter 15: Ethics in research and practice

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Publication date: 2018
Publisher: La Trobe eBureau 
ISBN: 978-0-9953727-7-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26826/1007
License: CC BY-NC-ND