Product Description

Research Methods in Health provides a comprehensive guide to the variety of methods for studying and assessing health and health services.

New sections and expanded sections will be added to chapters, where appropriate, to reflect current research developments. These include the following:
• Health technology assessment
• Patient based outcome measures
• Systematic reviews
• Use of mixed research methods
• Popular theoretical application to explaining patient behaviour
• Relevant research papers and examples

Cross-referencing to the Handbook of Research Methods in Health will be made, where appropriate.

References and recommended reading will be updated throughout the new edition. The boxes will be updated, where appropriate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73304 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

About the Author
Ann Bowling is Professor of Health Services Research at University College London, UK. She specialises in quality of life measurement, research on ageing and equity of access to health services, and is author of bestselling books on research methods and measurement including Measuring Disease, 2e, Measuring Health, 3e, and A Handbook of Health Research Methods jointly with Professor Shah Ebrahim (all published by Open University Press).

Customer Reviews

An extremely useful introductory guide to research methods
The text has over the past 3 years acted as a strong source of reference as I have been expected to carry out research within a health services context. It is useful both to managers,researchers clinicians working within the health context. The book helps at different levels i.e. from undertaking research involving patients through to beginning to evaluate a particular service.The book outlines and explains a wide range of different research methods from across the qualitative / quantitative spectrum.

I would recommend this book if you are being directly involved in research for the first time and a good source reference on your book shelf to help prompt questions of research proposals or projects you are expected to comment upon. For the trainee researcher working in health services it is highly recommended

excellent
very good. brilliant glossary at the end, as well as key points and questions at the end of every chapter. sections are clear and structured, and the style is friendly and honest. just misses a bit more content on qualitative data analysis

get it if you are going to do a research project in health sciences- bear in mind it is aimed exactly for that, so it may not be suitable for other purposes

Comprehensive and useful...
I like the book, it tells you all what you need about research methods, and makes all the destinctions a clinician might need to go out of the medical box into the wider aspects of health and health services. It still isn't what I would call a holiday reading, but who expects a book like that to be... Very good in dividing chapters that you will not need to read the whole book if you are looking for a piece of information.