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Lecturer(s)
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Brecherová Jitka, Mgr. Ing. Ph.D. et Ph.D., MBA
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Course content
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Lectures 1. Characteristics of research in health care and its direction, organization of research in the Czech Republic, areas of the research. 2. Scientific approach, basic concepts, sources of human knowledge (traditions, experiences, tests and mistakes, scientific thinking) ethical aspects of scientific work in health care. 3. Information sources - evidence based medicine, printed sources x electronic, primary x secondary, abstract, research citation ISO 690, impact factor. 4. Methods of scientific work - pre-research phase (exploration, piloting, pretest), basic methods of scientific work (observation, description, comparison, experiment), basic logical procedures (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction). 5. Techniques of data collection - observation, experiment, study of documents. 6. Data collection techniques - questionnaire, survey, scale, case report, interview. 7. Project preparation - preparatory phase, research problem, project preparation outline. 8. Research report - structure of the report, publication of research results. 9. Introduction to statistics - basic concepts and objectives of statistics, statistical data processing, principles for compiling tables and graphs.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 10 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 9 hours per semester
- Preparation for formative assessments (2-20)
- 6 hours per semester
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| at the basic level, he/she will explain the data analysis by statistics, |
| describes individual data collection techniques |
| characterizes research in health care |
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| works with information sources |
| builds hypotheses and formulate major research issues |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
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| Task-based study method |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
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Recommended literature
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Budíková, Marie; Králová, Maria; Maroš, Bohumil. Průvodce základními statistickými metodami. Praha : Grada Publishing, 2010. ISBN 978-80-247-3243-5.
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Walker, Ian. Výzkumné metody a statistika. Praha : Grada, 2013. ISBN 978-80-247-3920-5.
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