editado por Pranee Liamputtong. -- 3a. ed. -- Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 2017.

xliv, 605 p.; 25 cm.

ISBN 978-0-19-030430-0.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Contenido: Methods and principles -- The science of words and the science of numbers -- Getting started: designing and planning a research project -- What is ethical research? -- Qualitative approaches and practices -- The in-depth interviewing method in health -- Focus group in health research -- Narrative enquiry and health research -- Ethography as health research -- Grounded theory in health research -- Phenomenology and rehabilitation research -- Clinical data-mining as practice-based evidence -- Quantitative approaches and practices -- Measure twice, cut once: reliability and validity of clinical measurement tools -- Single-subject experimental designs in health research -- Surveys and questionnaires in health reserach -- How do we know what we know? Epidemiology in health research -- Clinical trials: the good, the bad and the ugly -- Evidence-based practice and systematic reviews -- Evidence-based health care -- Evidence-based practice in therapeutic health care -- Metasynthesis in health care research -- Everything you wanted to know about systematic reviews -- Mixed methods research -- Integrated methods in health research -- The use of mixed methods in health research -- Collaborative participatory research with disadvantaged communities -- Making sense of and presenting data -- Making sense of qualitative data -- Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) -- Data analysis in quantitative research -- How to read and make sense of statistical data -- Writing and appraising research reports.