Getting Started in Health Research Book

The relatively recent big increase in funding by central government (both in the UK as well as in other countries) of applied health research has meant that many clinicians are having to engage in clinical research. Many of them will have no previous experience of doing their own research and are likely to find the process completely baffling. How even to get started! Moreover there has been a rapid expansion in the number of clinicians doing Masters' degrees in health areas of which dissertations are a large part. Increasing numbers of these people need research skills to enable them to do the required research and write these dissertations. Additionally the idea of EBM (Evidence-Based Medicine) is now widely accepted and is reasonably well established in the various disciplines of clinical practice. The evidence" for successful and appropriate clinical practice is most frequently gathered from the research efforts of clinicians. One consequence of this is that it places a responsibility on all clinicians to at the very least understand research results.Read More