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JHSRP - QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
13-Jan-98
Would anyone be interested in contributing to the 'Questions & answers'
section of the recently launched Journal of Health Services Research and
Policy? JHSRP is edited by Nick Black at the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, London UK, and Nicholas Mays, at the King's Fund,
London UK.
The aim of the Q&A section is to identify and try to answer puzzles,
especially methodological ones, in health services research and policy.
Readers are invited both to submit questions which they think will be
of general interest or which are particularly topical, and to offer
answers to questions.
Questions can be ones which you feel have not been satisfactorily
answered in the existing literature, ones which relate to 'self-evident'
definitions which need to be made problematic, or paradoxes. Questions
for which we are seeking answers for the next issue of the journal
appear below:
· How does the misuse of the term 'the Hawthorne effect' affect the
interpretation of research outcomes?
· Given the distributional nature of costing and resource utilisation,
is it more appropriate to use median or mean descriptive statistics?
· Glaser and Strauss suggest that the grounded theory approach to
analysis could be used for quantitative data. How?
Answers should be under 250 words and written with wit and elegance. If
more than one, similar, answer is provided, the criterion of choice for
publication will be wit and originality.
All contributions submitted for publication should be faxed (or posted)
to the Q&A Section Editor: Gillian Parker, Nuffield Community Care
Studies Unit, University of Leicester, 22-28 Princess Road West,
Leicester LE1 6TP, UK.
Fax: +44 (0)116 252 5423.
Contributions sent to this e-mail address will be forwarded to the
section editor for the next week.
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Please see website on: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/jhsrp/default.htm
for 'instructions to authors' and order form.
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Christine Rivett-Carnac Email: [log in to unmask]
JHSRP Editorial Office Fax: +44 (0)171 307 2538
King's Fund Policy Institute Tel: +44 (0)171 307 2537/2400
11-13 Cavendish Square
LONDON W1M 0AN, UK
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