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Evaluation
The Modules
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Module 1, What is Health Services Research?
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Module 2: History of Health Services Research
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Module 3: Selected Players in Health Services Research
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Module 4: Searching the Literature of Health Services Research
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Module 5: Quality Filtering and Evidence-Based Medicine and Health
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Module 6: Basic Components of a Study
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Module 7: The Librarian's Role in Health Services Research
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Introduction to Health Services Research : A Self-Study Course

Module 6: Basic Components of a Study (Page 2 of 11)
Objectives

At the end of this module readers will

  • be able to describe the four major study designs
  • be able to articulate each study design's strengths and weaknesses
  • have a better idea of what each of these study types looks like after viewing links to PubMed searches on each of these study types
  • apply the learning from this module in your thinking about the five available case studies
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Last reviewed: 03 November 2007
Last updated: 03 November 2007
First published: 03 November 2007
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