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    <title>Action research in healthcare</title>
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    <namePart>Koshy, Elizabeth.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Waterman, H. (Heather)</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Koshy, Valsa</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1945-</namePart>
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    <publisher>SAGE</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xiv, 185 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>This is a practical guide to using research for improving practice in healthcare contexts. Taking you through the process step-by-step, the book explains how to tackle each stage of your project - from planning the study and undertaking a literature review, through to gathering and interpreting data and implementing findings.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>What is action research? -- Engaging in action research -- Reviewing literature -- Steps in the action research process: practical considerations -- Gathering data -- Analysis data and generating evidence -- Writing up and publishinh action research.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Elizabeth Koshy, Valsa Koshy, and Heather Waterman.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Action research in public health</topic>
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    <topic>Health Services Research</topic>
    <topic>methods</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Data Collection</topic>
    <topic>methods</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Quality Improvement</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Research Design</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">362.1072 KOA</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781848601888 (hbk.)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">1848601883 (hbk.)</identifier>
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