Using Research in Practice

It Sounds Good, But Will it Work?

By: Jaqui Hewitt-Taylor

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Latest research findings can provide an evidence base for health care practice which ultimately improves outcomes for patients. With so much published research out there, how do you find, evaluate and use the most relevant studies to shape your own health care practice?

This friendly book walks you through the key stages of locating, selecting and evaluating research findings in health care. Offering an engaging, practice-based approach to an often daunting task, the book:

Explores how to appraise and apply data drawn from a range of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies;
Demonstrates how research findings can influence decision-making and can improve your own practice, as well as that of your team;
Uses stimulating practice scenarios and worked examples to provide a transferrable blueprint for evidence based practice;

Drawing on the author's extensive research and teaching experience within the field of practice development, Using Research in Practice is an essential text for any health care student or practitioner seeking to evaluate and develop their own evidence base.

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'...a robust illustration of the importance of evidence based practice for students. This book explains and exemplifies the principles of research, research critique and research application in an engaging and novel way, and addresses many of the practicalities of reading about and using research as part of professional practice...' - Dr Geraldine Lyte, BNurs Programme Director, University of Manchester, UK 'This is an accessible text that will help students develop their understanding of evidence-based practice.' - Karen Hayward, School of Health, University Campus Suffolk, UK '...refreshing book ...inspires us to believe we can and should get involved in evidence-based practice.' - Nursing Standard

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List of Tables and Figures	p. xi
What is research, and why should it be used?
Why should we use research?	p. 3
The benefits of using research	p. 3
The challenges involved in using research	p. 5
Summary	p. 8
What is research?	p. 9
Defining research	p. 9
Research language	p. 11
Research, audit and clinical evaluation	p. 11
Research paradigms	p. 13
Methodologies and methods	p. 15
Summary	p. 16
Is the research any good?
Finding information	p. 19
Where to look for information	p. 19
Deciding what information you need	p. 21
Identifying key words	p. 22
Boolean and, or and not	p. 24
Truncation and Wildcards	p. 25
Searching in the right field	p. 26
Recording the results of searches	p. 26
Summary	p. 27
Appraising research	p. 29
Why research needs to be appraised	p. 29
What the research is about	p. 31
Literature review	p. 31
Methodology	p. 32
Methods	p. 32
Sampling	p. 33
Ethical considerations	p. 36
Analysis	p. 38
Reliability and validity	p. 38
Results and findings	p. 39
Conclusions and recommendations	p. 39
Is the study is applicable?	p. 40
Using existing frameworks to evaluate research	p. 40
Summary	p. 41
Appraising quantitative research	p. 46
The principles of quantitative enquiry	p. 46
Practice situations in which quantitative enquiry is likely to be useful	p. 46
Research question/hypothesis	p. 47
Research design/methodology	p. 48
Sampling	p. 51
Methods of data collection	p. 51
Reliability and validity	p. 52
Data analysis	p. 53
Results	p. 59
Conclusions and recommendations	p. 60
Application to practice	p. 60
Summary	p. 61
Appraising qualitative research	p. 65
Principles of qualitative enquiry	p. 65
Situations in which qualitative enquiry may be useful	p. 65
Research question	p. 66
Literature review	p. 66
Methodology	p. 67
Methods	p. 68
Sampling	p. 71
Data analysis	p. 72
Truth of data	p. 73
Findings	p. 76
Conclusions	p. 76
Applying qualitative research to practice	p. 76
Summary	p. 77
Appraising mixed methods research	p. 81
The principles of mixed methods research	p. 81
When mixed methods research may be useful?	p. 83
What is the research about?	p. 83
Literature review	p. 83
Methodology	p. 84
Methods of data collection	p. 85
Sample	p. 86
Ethical issues	p. 86
Data analysis	p. 87
Findings	p. 88
Conclusions and recommendations	p. 89
Quality in mixed methods research	p. 89
Applying mixed methods research to practice	p. 90
Summary	p. 90
Using summaries of evidence	p. 94
Using summaries of evidence	p. 94
Systematic reviews	p. 95
Meta analysis	p. 99
Meta synthesis	p. 104
Mixed methods synthesis	p. 107
Clinical guidelines	p. 107
Hierarchies of evidence	p. 109
Summary	p. 110
Putting research into practice
Making decisions	p. 115
What you need to make a decision	p. 115
Patient experiences and preferences	p. 118
Making the 'right' decision	p. 121
Explaining and defending your decisions	p. 122
Summary	p. 122
Changing your practice	p. 123
Deciding what you want to change	p. 123
Aims or objectives	p. 125
Planning what you will do	p. 126
Resources	p. 127
Barriers to change	p. 128
Timetable	p. 129
Evaluating your new practice	p. 129
Planning for sustained change	p. 129
Defending your practice	p. 130
Action planning	p. 130
Summary	p. 131
Changing team practice	p. 132
Deciding on what needs to be changed	p. 133
Ways to approach change management	p. 133
Force field analysis	p. 134
Barriers to change	p. 135
Key players	p. 138
Readiness for change	p. 140
Changing practice	p. 141
Motivating managers to allow changed practice	p. 142
Changing multidisciplinary practice	p. 143
Summary	p. 145
Evaluating new practice	p. 146
What should be evaluated?	p. 146
When to evaluate?	p. 147
Approaches to evaluation	p. 148
Evaluation methods	p. 149
Who or what to collect information from?	p. 151
Who should gather data?	p. 151
Biases	p. 152
When to collect data?	p. 153
Interpreting data	p. 153
Ethics and evaluation	p. 154
Sharing the findings	p. 155
Planning ongoing change	p. 155
Summary	p. 156
Conclusion	p. 157
Deciding whether to use a study's findings	p. 159
Was an appropriate statistical test used?	p. 162
Action plan template examples	p. 163
Additional resources	p. 164
References	p. 166
Index	p. 179
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