Research Catalog

Title

Tools for primary care research / edited by Moira Stewart [and others].

Publication

Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stewart, Moira.

Description

xvii, 283 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

If you're conducting primary care research, then Tools for Primary Care Research is the resource for you. Key introductory chapters describe the three decades of work by a family physician who recognized the importance of observing and questioning, and thoughtfully deliberated the challenges facing primary care researchers. Specific sections examine basic concepts such as identifying research questions and selecting an instrument, techniques such as choosing a sample and creating an original measure, as well as tools for measurement, for data collection, and for analysis. Together, contributors challenge the typical stereotyping of quantitative and qualitative researchers, suggesting the need for each to use available tools constructively. The resources--a multi-disciplinary collection including health research, medicine, anthropology, and psychology--were chosen on the basis of relevance to primary care problems and their unavailability in the traditional medical literature.

Series Statement

Research methods for primary care ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Research methods for primary care ; v. 2.

Subject

• Medicine > Research > Methodology
• Primary care (Medicine)
• Primary health care
• Health Services Research > methods
• Primary Health Care
• Primary health care
• Medicine > Research > Methodology
• Allgemeinmedizin
• Forschungsmethode
• Eerstelijnszorg
• Onderzoeksmethoden

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Foreword / John Howie -- Introduction / Moira Stewart. 1. In the Eyes of the Beholder: A Thirty-Year Odyssey of Research in Primary Care / Curtis G. Hames. 2. The Measurement of Outcomes in General Practice / David Metcalfe -- pt. I. Basic Concepts. 3. The Clinician in Research: Identifying Questions and Observing / Martin J. Bass. 4. The International Classification of Primary Care: Health Information for the Future / Maurice Wood. 5. Selecting an Instrument to Measure the Outcomes of Health Care / David Wilkin. 6. Basic Concepts in Reliability and Validity / Lorraine E. Ferris and Peter G. Norton -- pt. II. Basic Techniques. 7. How to Select a Sample in Primary Care Research / Truls Ostbye. 8. Creating an Original Measure / Fred Tudiver and Lorraine E. Ferris. 9. Cutting and Pasting New Measures From Old / Stephen J. Zyzanski -- pt. III. Tools for Measurement. 10. Symptoms: Measures of the Mind / Larry Culpepper. 11. Quality of Life and the Assessment of Primary Care / J. Ivan Williams.
• 12. Family Assessment Measures / Cindy I. Carlson. 13. COOP Measures of Functional Status / David W. Beaufait, Eugene C. Nelson, Jeanne M. Landgraf, Ronald D. Hays, John W. Kirk, John H. Wasson and Adam Keller -- pt. IV. Tools for Data Collection. 14. The Medical Record as a Source of Information for Research / Richard A. MacLachlan and Brian Hennen. 15. Designing Focus Group Research / David L. Morgan. 16. Depth Interviewing: The Long Interview Approach / William L. Miller and Benjamin F. Crabtree -- pt. V. Tools for Analysis. 17. The Analysis of Narratives From a Long Interview / Benjamin F. Crabtree and William L. Miller. 18. Statistical Packages for the Computer: Principles for Selection in Primary Care Research / Peter G. Norton, Edmee Franssen and Earl V. Dunn -- Appendix: Inventory of Psychosocial Measurement Instruments Useful in Primary Care / Scott H. Frank.

ISBN

• 0803944039
• 9780803944039
• 0803944047
• 9780803944046

LCCN

92002706

OCLC

• ocm25245723
• 25245723
• SCSB-1947339

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library