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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300340603321

Titolo

Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research / / edited by Justin B. Dimick, Caprice C. Greenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Springer London : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

1-4471-4718-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

Success in Academic Surgery, , 2194-7481

Disciplina

617.0072

Soggetti

Medicine

Surgery

Medical education

Medicine/Public Health, general

Medical Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Main Research Areas -- 1. An Introduction to Health Services Research -- 2. Comparative Effectiveness Research -- 3. Understanding Variations in the Use of Surgery -- 4. Health Policy Research in Surgery -- 5. Studying Surgical Disparities: It’s not all Black and White -- 6. Measuring Health Care Quality in Surgery: Strategies, Limitations, and Currently Available Initiatives -- 7. Using data for local quality improvement -- Part 2. Emerging Areas of Research -- 8. Implementation Science and Quality Improvement -- 9. Understanding and changing organizational culture in surgery -- 10. Assessing patient-centered outcomes -- 11. Studying What Happens in the OR -- 12. Collaborative Quality Improvement -- Part 3. Tools of the Trade -- 13. Large Databases used for Outcomes Research -- 14. Methods for Enhancing Causal Inference in Observational Studies -- 15. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: a Clinical Exercise -- 16. Medical Decision-Making Research in Surgery -- 17. Survey research -- 18. Qualitative research methods. Part 4. Career Development -- 19. Engaging Students in Surgical Outcomes Research -- 20. Finding a Mentor in Outcomes Research -- 21. What Every Outcomes Research Fellow Should Learn -- 22. Funding Opportunities for Outcomes Research --



23. Choosing your first job as a surgeon and health services researcher -- 24. Building a Health Services Research Program.

Sommario/riassunto

Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research is a unique handbook which will help researchers and surgeons in obtaining National Institutes of Health funding and other grants, as well as breaking through the barriers to developing a career in academic surgery.   Aimed at surgical residents and young surgical faculty, Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research is written by expert authors from around the world who are members of the Association for Academic Surgery, and it offers a practical and personal insight on working in academic surgery.