Research Methods Resources

Assessment Tools

• Discern
  DISCERN is an instrument, or tool, which has been designed to give users of consumer health information a valid and reliable way to judge the quality of written information about treatment choices. DISCERN can also be used by authors and publishers of information on treatment choices as a guide to the standard which users are entitled to expect.
  
  


• Evaluating Health Web Sites

General

• Advice on Academic Writing
  
  
• Dalhousie Writing Centre
  
  
• Helping patients access high quality health information.
  Shepperd et al., BMJ, 319, 18 Sep 1999: 764-766
  An overview that includes a lot of useful source/gateway information, plus references
  
  
• Evaluating printed materials (Print resource)
  Allensworth-DD; Luther-CR, Nurse-Educator (NURSE-EDUC) 1986 Mar-Apr;11(2): 18-22 (13 ref)

• How to write a review article
  

• Evaluation of Health Information on the Internet
  
  
• Twelve Questions to Ask About a Research
  
  
• How to Critically Analyze Information Sources
  
  
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals<
  
  
• Seven Steps to Effective Library Research
  
  
• Proceed with Caution: A Report on the Quality of Health Information on the Internet
  RAND Health, May 2001

BMJ's How to Read a Paper Series

• Paper copy
  
  • How to read a paper : the basics of evidence based medicine
    Greenhalgh, Trisha, London : BMJ, 1997.
    W 20.5 G813h 1997
• Electronic copy
  • Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)
    Trisha Greenhalgh BMJ No 7102 Volume 315
  • Assessing the methodological quality of published papers
    Trisha Greenhalgh BMJ No 7103 Volume 315
  • Statistics for the non-statistician
    Trisha Greenhalgh BMJ No 7104 Volume 315
  • Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls
    Trisha Greenhalgh BMJ No 7105 Volume 315
  • Papers that report drug trials
    Trisha Greenhalgh BMJ No 7106 Volume 315
  • Papers that report diagnostic or screening test
    Trisha Greenhalgh BMJ No 7107 Volume 315
  • Papers that tell you what things costs (economic analyses)
    Trisha Greenhalgh BMJ No 7108 Volume 315
  • Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
    Trisha Greenhalgh BMJ No 7109 Volume 315
  • Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
    Trisha Greenhalgh, Rod Taylor BMJ No 7110 Volume 315

Peer Reviewed Journals

• Peer Reviewed Journals

Qualitative Research

• Qualitative Research Resources on the Internet

Research Methods in Primary Care

• How to critique qualitative research articles
  Forchuk-C; Roberts-J, Canadian-Journal-of-Nursing-Research 1993 Winter; 25(4): 47-56 (31 ref)

Textbooks

• Studying a study and testing a test : how to read the medical evidence
  Riegelman, Richard K., 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa. : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
  WA 950 R554s 2000
  
  
• Critical reading for primary care
  Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
  W 89 C934 1995

Annotated Bibliography

• How to Write Annotated Bibliographies
• How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
• JADA Resources

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