The research process : organising your research
Choosing methodological approaches
Searching the literature
Ethics of healthcare research
Basic concepts : sampling, reliability and validity
Issues in qualitative data collection
Case studies
Ethnography
Phenomenology
A pragmatic approach to qualitative data analysis
Limitations of qualitative research
Sampling, reliability and validity issues in data collection and analysis
Cause and effect, hypothesis testing and estimation
Experimental and quasi-experimental approaches
The single case experiment
Randomised controlled trials
Non-experimental approaches
Surveys
The role of statistics
Evidence-based practice and clinical effectiveness
Critical evaluation of research reports
Writing a research report
Getting research into practice.