Evaluating Research in Health and Social Care

Download or read book Evaluating Research in Health and Social Care written by Roger Gomm and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-11-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practitioners across the caring professions increasingly need to know where evidence can be found and to evaluate different forms of evidence with a critical eye. This invaluable collection includes exemplars of a wide range of research techniques and provides a critical commentary for each. The commentary is designed to tackle jargon and demystify the text, highlighting the compromises that need to be made in real world research designs and the complexity of controlling relevant variables. The book seeks to underline the challenges of interpreting and generalising results both for the researchers and for those who fund their work. This is a set book for the Open University course K302 Critical Practice in Health and So