Research for Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare, 2nd Edition

SECTION 1 CONTEXTUAL MATERIALS.

1 Introduction to Healthcare Research for Evidence-Based Practice.

2 The Research Process – Organising Your Research.

3 Choosing Methodological Approaches.

4 Searching the Literature.

5 Ethics of Healthcare Research.

6 Basic Concepts: Sampling, Reliability and Validity.

SECTION 2 QUALITATIVE APPROACHES.

7 Issues in Qualitative Data Collection.

8 Case Studies.

9 Ethnography.

10 Phenomenology.

11 A Pragmatic Approach to Qualitative Data Analysis.

12 Limitations of Qualitative Research.

SECTION 3 QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES.

13 Sampling, Reliability and Validity Issues in Data Collection and Analysis.

14 Cause and Effect, Hypothesis Testing and Estimation.

15 Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Approaches.

16 The Single Case Experiment.

17 Randomised Controlled Trials.

18 Non-Experimental Approaches.

19 Surveys.

20 The Role of Statistics.

SECTION 4 APPRAISAL, DISSEMINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION.

21 Evidence-Based Practice and Clinical Effectiveness.

22 Critical Evaluation of Research Reports.

23 Writing a Research Report.

24 Getting Research into Practice.

Appendix 1 Research Log.

Appendix 2 List of Useful Websites (In Order of Citation).

Index.

Additional resource material can be found on the book’s website at: www.wiley.com/go/newell