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Conducting Research in the Practice Setting
vol 5, Research Methods for Primary Care, edited by Martin J. Bass, Earl V. Dunn, Peter G. Norton, Moira Stewart, and Fred Tudiver, 266 pp, $21.95, ISBN 0-8039-5126-4, Newbury Park, Calif, Sage Publications, 1993.
Robert B. Williams, MD, MIS, Reviewer
Medical College of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(11):1011-1012.
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This volume is added to the Research Methods in Primary Care series at a time when research conducted in the practice setting is having increasingly significant clinical and policy effects. More and more, investigators are conducting large randomized trials in real community practice settings. The significance of this can be lost on the traditional researcher or the policymaker who has not been aware of what he or she has been missing. Testing hypotheses about delivering truly effective patient services brings us closer to our goal of benefiting our patients. This timely offering by Bass et al gives us a tool to guide our asking and answering of such questions. The editors have chosen to address four major areas: general issues of conducting practice-based research, practical issues, collaborations, and research in different settings. The section on general issues lends itself to reflective reading about approaching research questions in the practice
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