Offers opportunity to the medical and health professionals to understand research methodology, practice it, and to be able to critically appraise the evidence put forth by others. A great aid for students interested in pursuing health research, research professionals, and all clinicians at large to promote scientific thinking and high-quality research. Provides knowledge of basic principles of research to carry out the primary research, and to effectively implement it in practice. Gives information on processes and intricacies of research methods such as formulating the research questions, hypothesis, study designs, and implementation of research, including project management, statistical techniques, and data management. Enlightens on writing and publishing research, and on issues related to ethics and funding. Helps to understand the concepts in a simplified manner and get practical insights into problems while carrying out the research and their solutions. Easy-to-read with plenty of examples, figures and flowcharts explaining the processes and concepts.

This is well-organized and easy to follow book for enriching healthcare management. Elaborates updated techniques and practices of hospital administration and management with reference. Contains number of information tables, summary boxes and useful diagrams. The previous editions were well received by the leading management institutions and universities for their students as a reference guide and textbook.

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