Healthcare Research

Paula Roberts is Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Keele University, Staffordshire, UK. Helena Priest is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.

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• Foreword. Preface.Acknowledgements.PART 1 THEORY AND PRACTICE.1 Why healthcare research? (Michael Traynor).2 Approaches to healthcare research (Oliver Slevin).3 Taking the first step: Developing a research proposal (Leslie Woods, Helena Priest and Paula Roberts).4 What do we know already? Searching the literature (Susan Smith and David Bird)5 Can we trust the evidence? Critically reviewing a research paper (David Rogers).6 Conducting ethical research in healthcare (Helena Priest and Paula Roberts).7 Quantitative research methods: Gathering and making sense of numbers (David Clark-Carter).8 Qualitative research methods: Gathering and making sense of words (Helena Priest and Paula Roberts).9 Making your case: Writing for your audience (Mike Brough, Susan Smith, Paula Roberts and Helena Priest).10 Sharing research knowledge (Paula Roberts, Colin Macduff, Tim Smale and Helena Priest).PART 2 RESEARCH IN ACTION.11 Combining research methods: Case studies and action research (Rebecca Jester).12 Involving vulnerable people in research (Helen Combes and Ranil Tan).13 Involving older people and carers in a research project: The 'virtual' steering group (Sue Ashby and Sian Maslin-Prothero).14 Involving people with intellectual disabilities in research: Participation and emancipation (Mike Gibbs and Sue Read).15 Researching with children and young people (Jacqueline Collin and Geraldine Lyte).16 Researching organizations: Evaluating a 'partnership for older people project' (Roger Beech, Brenda Roe, Michelle Russell, Bernard Beech and Deborah Gent).Postscript (Paula Roberts and Helena Priest).Index.