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by Patricia M. Cole. From The Qualitative Report.
A guide from The University of Calgary.
A general guide to using the internet to conduct research by Terry Brainerd Chadwick.
Recommendations for training the researchers & educators of the future.
Part of
Cranfield University's R&D Management Centre website this chapter, taken from the Gower Handbook of Management, provides an introduction to R&D management.
UKHEP is a new e-learning joint venture between the Royal College of Nursing, City University London and the Universities of Ulster and Leicester. UKHEP offers a range of inter-professional and patient-centered online learning modules to post-registration healthcare professionals. Modules can be studied as standalone CPD opportunities or combined to earn a BSc top-up degree in health sciences. March 2005 modules: Health Informatics, Research Methodologies for Practice, Leadership, User and carer involvement, Clinical governance matters, Clinical governance works, Evidence-based healthcare, Managing change.
A guide from ScHARR provided to give an understanding of the barriers, constraints and enablers that can result in the successful implementation of research.
Designed for engineers but with relevant information about
Managing your information for research.
A guide describing different descriptive studies. From the
University of Calgary.
A user-friendly book that offers practical advice about how to read, conduct, and write up research. Explains fundamental concepts clearly and with many real-life analogies and examples. Chapters on how to generate a research hypothesis, how to select a measure, how to read journal articles, how to write up research, how to conduct survey research, and
appendixs that include a sample paper.
An online tutorial from
Michigan State University covering Case Control Studies and Cohort Studies.
A chapter from the
Research Methods Knowledge Base.
A series of guides dealing with databases and SPSS from 'Professor Mean'. Includes some practice exercises.
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The
BMJ text.
An introduction from the SUNY Health Sciences Evidence Based Medicine Course.
See also the TRIAGE page on
Trials
An introduction from the SUNY Health Sciences Evidence Based Medicine Course.
An introduction from the SUNY Health Sciences Evidence Based Medicine Course.
An introduction from the SUNY Health Sciences Evidence Based Medicine Course.
This Beginner's Guide gives an introduction to the design of questionnaires. A very useful printable
pdf document from
Leeds University.
Containing guidelines for planning, organizing, and conducting surveys.
A chapter from the Research Methods Knowledge Base.
A chapter from the Research Methods Knowledge Base.
A set of tutorials from Professor Mean, on the STATS site.
This is an organisation for individuals and departments involved in the management and planning of R&D activities and in conducting R&D in health and social care. The purpose of the Forum is to improve the environment for research within organisations delivering health and social care by encouraging high standards and providing support and communication networks. The Forum is an inclusive organisation open to all involved in R&D, including directors, managers, administrators, consumers and researchers themselves. The activities of the Forum encompass research across the full range of health and social care including community and primary care, secondary and tertiary care, public health and social services. Membership is free and gives you access to information from the Forum and allows participation in all our activities. The site includes a discussion board.
The journal of the Oxford and Anglia NHS region containing bullet points of EBM. May run several months behind printed version.
The BUBL Service (Bulletin Board for Libraries) is a UK Service aimed at the academic and research community and is organised by Bath University. Contains abstracts or full text of 220 current journals including medical journals.
This is the electronic equivalent of the printed version and has many useful features such as links to Medline references at the end of journal articles.
This group has a links page with pointers to hundreds of on-line journals in the field of psychology, psychiatry, and mental health.
Main journal for UK health policy and management. Provides access to some of the contents of the journal, plus over 600 links to other web sites including primary healthcare sites.
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