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Health Services Research: Avoiding the Pitfalls
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Edited by Huw T O Davies. London: Quay Books, Mark Allen Publishing Ltd, 2001. £14.99, 168 pp. ISBN 1 85642 195 3
Health professionals are increasingly expected to refer to research evidence when making policy and practice decisions. However, there is considerable variation in the quality and applicability of research. To use research sensibly it is therefore important not only to access the evidence, but also to judge its adequacy for the question in hand.
This book collects together a series of articles published in Hospital Medicine since 1998, which seek to provide guidance on the most widely used healthcare research …