Study Design & Development
The Study Design & Development stage includes tasks and activities that occur early in your research design and development such as biostatistics consultations, informatics consultations, identifying co-investigators and collaborators and exploring funding opportunities.
Evaluate your study area
For consideration:
- What is your objective?
- What is your research hypothesis, or what question are you trying to answer?
- Is your study idea feasible/possible?
- Are the population and demographics available to complete your research?
- Has this research been attempted before?
- What were the successes, failures, limitations?
Resources
- Data.gov: The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
- PubMed: PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
- Click here to access Parkland's EBSCOhost Research Libraries, including:
- MEDLINE Complete
- CINAHL Complete
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Health Business Elite
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database
- Health Technology Assessments
- Cochrane Methodology Register
- eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
- eBook Clinical Collection (EBSCOhost)
Conduct a literature review
A literature review surveys books, scholarly articles, and any other sources relevant to a particular issue, area of research, or theory, and by so doing, provides a description, summary, and critical evaluation of these works in relation to the research problem being investigated. Literature reviews are designed to provide an overview of sources you have explored while researching a particular topic and to demonstrate to your audience how your research fits within a larger field of study.
Resources
- Essential Nursing Resources
- NCBI Literature Resources
- PubMed: PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
- Click here to access Parkland's EBSCOhost Research Libraries, including:
- MEDLINE Complete
- CINAHL Complete
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Health Business Elite
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database
- Health Technology Assessments
- Cochrane Methodology Register
- eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
- eBook Clinical Collection (EBSCOhost)
Biostatistics & Study Design
For consideration and discussion topics of interest:
- Hypothesis generation
- Study design, sample size and power calculations, analytic plan
- Statistical analysis of preliminary data
- Other data management issues (e.g. validation) – data entry services not available
- Statistical analysis of data
- Organizing your data for capture into a database
- Advice on survey design and data collection methods
- Advice on data sources
- Advice on preparing manuscripts and responding to journal reviews
Resources
- Parkland Health System Research