A Practical Guide for Health Researchers - part 7 docx

... presentations to small groups. Overhead transparencies, as visual aids, have advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of overhead transparencies are that: • they may not need to have the ... syndromic tags for patients; male/female are more appropriate for animals; men and women are better for human subjects. • Slang and jargon (words that have an arbitrary meaning). Do not conf...

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... 1 879 to help provide health professionals access to information necessary for research, health care, and education. It makes available to researchers a vast database that is updated and changed ... are also available. This is trial version www.adultpdf.com 200 A practical guide for health researchers • health- care services that are essential to the safe conduct of...

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... journal Nature has a circulation of about 30 000 and an estimated impact factor of 25; the Journal of the American Medical Association has a circulation of about 370 000 and an impact factor ... published on a quarterly basis and made available both on CD-ROM and on the internet. It is easily accessible in a user-friendly format. It is the result of collaborative hand-searching ef...

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... considerations are This is trial version www.adultpdf.com WHO Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Fathalla, Mahmoud F. A practical guide for health researchers / by Mahmoud F. Fathalla and Mohamed ... sources of information 170 Chapter 14. Assessment and evaluation of research 172 14.1 Introduction 172 14.2 Assessment and evaluation by researchers 173 14.3 Assessment an...

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... research design. The researcher has to select the appropriate design for the particular study. All types of research design have a place, and all have advantages and disadvantages. But not all ... version www.adultpdf.com 36 A practical guide for health researchers rigour. In particular the drug in question should be compared, in a randomized way, with the currently best...

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... This is trial version www.adultpdf.com 50 A practical guide for health researchers operational definition. The operational definition is a statement of how the researchers in a particular study ... data. Some information may be available This is trial version www.adultpdf.com 62 A practical guide for health researchers 4.12.4 Ethics in research designs involvin...

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... monitoring: data management (record keeping and data handling) and data quality (quality assurance and quality control). Record-keeping and handling of data All steps involved in data management should ... clarity and style of the written proposal. This is trial version www.adultpdf.com 86 A practical guide for health researchers the investigator for every patient participatin...

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... statistical test to be used. For the purposes of data description, and statistical analysis, data are looked at as variables. Data are classified as either numerical or categorical. Data are ... is trial version www.adultpdf.com 100 A practical guide for health researchers Distribution of the data The distribution of the data is important for the statisticians. Data fall in...

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... non-standard abbreviations that are used, and for identification of statistical measures of variations, such as standard deviation and standard error of the mean. Tables should have a logical structure. ... version www.adultpdf.com 142 A practical guide for health researchers • Are the results presented in a way that allows other investigators to check and to compare? Ca...

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... is trial version www.adultpdf.com 174 A practical guide for health researchers The critical reader of a scientific paper takes a close look at the results and their interpretation. Pitfalls in ... Wellcome trust, for example, maintains TechTrac, an This is trial version www.adultpdf.com 170 A practical guide for health researchers • Be sure to prepare a pr...

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