Recommended course literature:
Petter Laake, Haakon Breien Benestad, Bjorn Reino Olsen (editors): Research Methodology in the Medical and Biological Sciences , 2007. Academic Press, London. ISBN: 0123738741 .
Qualitative research methods:
Bogdan RC, Biklen SK.: Qualitative research for education, 1998. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. pp. 4-7 & 32-42.
Creswell J.: Qualitative procedures in research design : qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches, 2003. London: Sage. 186-7.
Gallagher TH et al: Patients’ and physicians’ attitudes regarding the disclosure of medical errors, JAMA 2003; 289: 1001-7.
Kuper A. et al: Critically appraising qualitative research, BMJ 2008; 337:a1035.
Kvale S., Brinkmann S: InterViews: learning the craft of qualitative interviewing, 2009. London: Sage. pp. 23-32 & 61-79. .
Malterud K.: Qualitative research: standards, challenges, and guidelines, Lancet 2001; 358: 483–88.
Genes in the media:
Rebecca Carver, Ragnar Waldahl & Jarle Breivik: Frame that gene, European Molecular Biology Organization. EMBO reports Vol 9, No 10, 2008.
Meta-analysis and literature surveys:
Greenhalgh T. : Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses). In How to read a paper: The basics of evidence based medicine, 2000. London: BMJ Publishing Group. Ch. 8.
Alternative reading:
Higgins JPT, Green S (editors): Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.0.1 [updated September 2008], The Cochrane Collaboration. Available from. www.cochrane-handbook.org.
Statistical methods:
Intensive Lipid Lowering with Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis, 25. september 2008, 359:13. The New England Journal of Medicine.