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This practical 'How To' guide talks the reader step-by-step through designing, conducting and disseminating primary care research, a growing discipline internationally. The vast majority of health care issues are experienced by people in community settings, who are not adequately represented by hospital-based research. There is therefore a great need to upskill family physicians and other primary care workers and academics to conduct community-based research to inform best practice. Aimed at emerging researchers, including those in developing countries, this book also addresses cutting edge and newly developing research methods, which will be of equal interest to more experienced researchers.
Sommario
Foreword
Editors
Contributors
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
1. What makes research primary care research?
Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Bob Mash
2. Ontology and epistemology, methodology and method, and research paradigms
Eric K. Shaw
3. How to choose your topic and define your research question
William R. Phillips
SECTION II: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH
4. Interdisciplinary research approaches in primary care
Trish Greenhalgh
5. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods
Elizabeth Halcomb
6. Authentic engagement, co-creation and action research
Vivian R. Ramsden, Jackie Crowe, Norma Rabbitskin, Danielle Rolfe and Ann C. Macaulay
7. Development and use of primary care research networks
Emma Wallace and Tom Fahey
8. Using big data in primary care research
Daniel J. Exeter and Katherine E. Walesby
9. Conducting primary care research using social media
Charilaos Lygidakis, Ana Luísa Neves, Liliana Laranjo and Luís Pinho-Costa
10. Quality improvement research in primary care
Andrew W. Knight and Paresh Dawda
11. Programme evaluation in primary care
Lauren Siegmann, Robyn Preston and Bunmi Malau-Aduli
SECTION III: PRELIMINARY STEPS TO DOING PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH
12. How to prepare your research proposal
Bob Mash
13. How to ensure your research follows ethical principles
Christopher Barton, Sally Hall, Penelope Abbott, Chun Wah Michael Tam, Amanda Lyons and Siaw-Teng Liaw
14. How to search and critically appraise the literature
Celeste Naude and Taryn Young
SECTION IV: METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR DOING PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH
15. Taking stock of existing research: Approach to conducting a systematic review
Taryn Young and Celeste Naude
16. Statistics in primary care research
Richard Stevens
17. How to conduct a survey in primary care
Lauren Ball and Katelyn Barnes
18. Validation studies: Validating new tools and adapting old ones to new contexts
Sherina Mohd Sidik
19. Clinical and other diagnostic tests: Understanding their predictive value
Sarah Price, Robert Price and Willie Hamilton
20. How to conduct observational studies
Tibor Schuster
21. Randomised trials in primary care
Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant, Miriam Dickinson and Tibor Schuster
22. Grounded theory
David R. Thomas
23. Doing interpretive phenomenological primary care research
Valerie A. Wright-St Clair
24. Why ethnography is an important part of primary care research and how it is done
Carissa van den Berk-Clark
25. Case study
Robin Ray, Judy Taylor and Robyn Preston
26. Interactional analysis of primary care consultations
Maria Stubbe, Anthony Dowell, Kevin Dew and Lindsay Macdonald
SECTION V: HOW TO DISSEMINATE YOUR RESEARCH
27. How to write and how to publish
Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Katharine A. Wallis
28. How to create an effective poster
Katharine A. Wallis
29. Using social media to disseminate primary care research
Charilaos Lygidakis and Raquel Gómez Bravo
30. Reaching decision-makers and achieving social impact with your research
Bob Mash, Nasreen Jessani and Liesl Nicol
SECTION VI: BUILDING RESEARCH CAPACITY
31. How to supervise and mentor a less-experienced or novice researcher
Elizabeth Sturgiss and Lena Sanci
32. Creating the right environment for mentoring to flourish
Amanda Howe
33. A systems approach to building research capacity: Individuals, networks and culture
Grant Russell
34. Including primary care research in clinical practice
Chris van Weel
Index
Riassunto
This practical ‘How To’ guide talks the reader step-by-step through designing, conducting and disseminating primary care research, a growing discipline internationally.
Relazione
"At a time when so many clinicians become overwhelmed with their everyday challenges and responsibilities, this book offers a respite to change one's thinking, expanding the scope in an additional area of thought. It is a well-written, easy-to-read text book brings a renewed thinking to research."
Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
