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How to Appraise Research
Carol Catherine Hagino BSc, MBA, PhD, Student in Medical Research, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ISBN 0443073791 · Paperback · 168 Pages · 10 Illustrations
Churchill Livingstone · Published December 2002
It is essential that health care professionals are able to read and critically evaluate published research for themselves so that they can make their own judgements on its value and relevance to clinical practice. How to Appraise Research aims to help them do that by centring on the evaluation of 8 previously published research papers.
How to Appraise Research is designed to help reader question what they read and to reach their own conclusions about the research results presented. Those who use it will find it enables them to become more competent consumers of the healthcare research literature. Although the examples used are drawn mainly from the chiropractic literature the skills being taught are essential to any healthcare practitioner.
Reviews
"This workbook . . . is a novel and exciting answer to how we can learn critical appraisal skills . . . a wonderful teaching methodology!" Dana J Lawrence, Editor, Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics
Features
Use of questions and answers to teach the reader how to undertake their own critical analysis
Uses real examples of published papers from peer-reviewed journals which are frequently referred to in the chiropractic literature
All the papers are relevant to the chiropractic/manual therapy readership.
Contents
How to use this book. A Critical Evaluation of: A case report of a congenital cleft of the anterior atlas arch - a rare variant of the atlas mimicking fracture. A Critical Evaluation of: Conservative management of mechanical neck pain - systemic overview and meta-analysis. A Critical Evaluation of: Low back pain of mechanical origin: randomized comparison of chiropractic and hospital outpatient treatment. A Critical Evaluation of: A comparison of active and simulated chiropractic manipulation as adjunctive treatment for childhood asthma. A Critical Evaluation of: Effects of diptheria-tetanus-pertussis or tetanus vaccination on allergies and allergy-related respiratory symptoms among children and adolescents in the United States. A Critical Evaluation of: A comparison of physical therapy, chiropractic manipulation, and provision of an educational booklet for the treatment of patients with low back pain. A Critical Evaluation of: Inter- and intra-examiner reliability of palpation for sacroiliac joint dysfunction. A Critical Evaluation of : Reliability and concurrent validity of two instruments for measuring cervical range of motion: effects of age and gender. References. Index.
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