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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Springer London : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2014.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 617.0072
• Soggetto topico: Medicine; Surgery; Medical education; Medicine/Public Health, general; Medical Education
• Persona (resp. second.): DimickJustin B; GreenbergCaprice C
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Success in Academic Surgery
• ISBN: 1-4471-4718-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910300340603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Success in Academic Surgery, . 2194-7481