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Goal Seek (An Excel function)

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Offsite Websites That Are Pertinent to This Chapter

Medical Informatics Research

A web-based inventory of print journal evaluation studies in medical informatics 1982 - 2005.
http://evaldb.umit.at/index.htm

Castro, Daniel (2009). The Role of Information Technology in Medical Research. Article that discusses the need to modernize our healthcare system so that health informatics will permit healthcare research like that possible in the UK. (Added October 24,2009)
http://itif.org/files/2009-it-medical-research.pdf

Online surveys

Best practices for survey design.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/SurveyMonkeyFiles/SmartSurvey.pdf

Tips to enhance survey respondent rate.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/SurveyMonkeyFiles/Response_Rates.pdf

Wright, K. B. (2005). "Researching Internet-based populations: Advantages and disadvantages of online survey research, online questionnaire authoring software packages, and web survey services." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 10(3 (Article 11)). (Added October 12, 2009)
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/wright.html

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Qualitative Resources

From the freely available Qualitative Research Journal.
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/qualres.html

Qualitative Resources on the Web. A great variety of resources including Web pages and full text papers.
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/qualres.html

Research Tips

Business Research Lab. Although maintained by a commercial organization,this site provides helpful hints on some aspects of research.
http://www.busreslab.com/tips/tipsgen.htm

Statistics

Online Statistics Book
http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html

Pitfalls of Data Analysis (or How to Avoid Lies and Damned Lies). A down to earth explanation of statistics.
http://my.execpc.com/~helberg/pitfalls/

Statistics tutorial from University of Michigan School of Nursing at (requires the latest Flash reader which is available at http://www.flash.com/)
http://www.nursing.umich.edu/studentresources/modules.html

Nursing Methods (research) module.
http://www.nursing.umich.edu/n536research/methodsdirections.html

Free statistical software for many different types of statistics. You will find it helpful to ead the reviews before downloading, some may require more computer sophistication than you wish to employ. (Added November 12, 2009)
http://www.freestatistics.info/stat.php

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Statistics Calculators

CUErgo Statistics Helper. Has information to help you decide on an appropriate statistical test for your design as well as an online statistical program available free.
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUSTATS/INDEX.HTM

You enter data and the tool here calculates different types of stats. Also has tutorials about each type.
http://www.easycalculation.com/statistics/statistics.php

Quick calculations of different types of stats and tutorials.
http://www.ifigure.com/math/stat/stat.htm

Templates

Cpk Info. A collection of freely downloadable Excel templates for Scatter Plots, Stratification Diagrams, Pareto Charts, Gantt Charts, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Histograms, Fish Bone Diagrams, Design of Experiments, Control Charts, Box Plots, and Flow Charts. (Added December 7, 2009)
http://www.asq.org/learn-about-quality/tools-templates.html

 

Writing the Research Paper

Hamid, S. Writing a Research Paper. An excellent resource that starts by describing the process, provides information on the types of research papers, hints for understanding the assignment and many, many more. Helpful to first timers as well as experienced writers!
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/

 

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Websites Referred to in Text of Chapter

Comparison of analysis capabilities of free statistics programs.http://freestatistics.altervista.org/en/comp.php

Online statistical tutorials.

DataFerrett. http://dataferrett.census.gov/

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). http://www.ahrq.gov/data

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services access to research, statistics, data, and systems. http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/rsds.asp

National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). http://www.ninr.nih.gov/

Monthly summaries of research. http://www.medscape.com/index/section_1221_0

Table 25-1 (from Applications & Competencies) (An Excel file)

 

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References in this Chapter that are Online

Chen, T. (2003) The history of statistical thinking in medicine. In Ying Lu & Ji-Qian Fang Advanced Medical Statistics. World Scientific Publishing Company. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://www.worldscibooks.com/lifesci/etextbook/4854/4854_chap1.pdf

Fitzpatrick, M. (2006). Using data to drive performance improvement in hospitals. Health Management Technology, 27(12), 10-16. Retrieved, January 2, 2009 from www.healthmgttech.com

Harris Interactive, Inc. (2002). European Physician Especially in Sweden, Netherlands and Denmark lead U.S. in use of electronic medical records. Health Care News, 2(16). Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/newsletters/healthnews/
HI_HealthCareNews2002Vol2_Iss16.pdf

HIMSS Analytics TM EMR Adoption Model. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://www.himssanalytics.org/docs/EMRAM.pdf

Pew Research Center (2006). Matering Internet News Audience  -- Broader Than Deep. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/282.pdf

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