How to Appraise Research: A Guide for Chiropractic Students and Practitioners

By Carol Catherine Hagino BSc MBA PhD

It is essential that health care professionals are able to read and critically evaluate published research for themselves so that they can make their own judgements on its value and relevance to clinical practice. How to Appraise Research aims to help them do that by centring on the evaluation of 8 previously published research papers.

How to Appraise Research is designed to help reader question what they read and to reach their own conclusions about the research results presented. Those who use it will find it enables them to become more competent consumers of the healthcare research literature. Although the examples used are drawn mainly from the chiropractic literature the skills being taught are essential to any healthcare practitioner.Use of questions and answers to teach the reader how to undertake their own critical analysisUses real examples of published papers from peer-reviewed journals which are frequently referred to in the chiropractic literatureAll the papers are relevant to the chiropractic/manual therapy readership.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443073791
• ISBN13: 9780443073793
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.5" x 8.8"