This subject covers:
- Introduction to research methods used in observational studies
- Practical skills required in the design and assessment of a research project
- Protocol design, including study type selection, introduction to questionnaire design,
- Planning data management and statistical analysis and developing a study budget
- Introduction to the role of qualitative research
- Formulating answerable clinical questions
- Scientific literaure searches
- Critical appraisal of scientific literature and evidence based guidelines
- Application of research to clinical practice
- Barriers to changing practice
- Introduction to PICO
- Choosing a study design
- Introduction to statistics for research
- Subject selection
- Measurement
- Bias and confounding
- Trials in critical care; statistical issues
- Data input & management
- Diagnostic tests; research ethics
- Funding; and qualitative methods
- Introduction to EBM
- Asking answerable question
- Research designs
- Searching the literature
- P values and Confidence Intervals
- Interpreting data
- Data Quality and missing data
- Bias and confounding
- Critically appraising studies of therapy
- Critical appraising studies of harm
- Critical appraising studies of diagnosis
- Understanding systematic reviews
- Critically appraising studies of prognosis