Research & QI Center

• MSU: Resources for Medical Education Research and Scholarship:  A roundup of focused & pertinent articles, tutorials, & web pages.
• IHI: QI Essentials Toolkit
• IHI: Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit
• CIRT: Generating Ideas
• PCORI: Research Fundamentals: Preparing you to successfully contribute to research.  
• BMJ Best Practice: How to clarify a clinical question
• ITHS, University of Washington, Tools and Resources

GMU: How to Write a Research Question

Critical Appraisal Tools:  The tools are worksheets designed to help you efficiently evaluate published research.  Additionally, you will get insight into what your own research should include.( Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford University) 

 Understanding synthesis (systematic) review articles  (2 min)

• Formulating a good research question: Pearls and pitfalls.
• Formulating the research question (book chapter)
• Formulation of Research Question – Stepwise Approach
• From ideas to studies how to get ideas and sharpen them into research questions

Literature Databases & Information Resources