Help Needed from Research Guru's...Please!

[marianne202]

Ok, so my new class started in my MHA program and it is an evaluation research for healthcare class. I'm supposed to be analyzing and critiquing research articles. I'm not into research at all and I tested out of the research methods in Psych. class at EC, so I'm totally lost when trying to interpret these articles. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good book or resource that will help to explain these research methods? I have my research methods in psychology study materials (thank goodness, I save things!) but some of the methods are different.

I need something basic that will help me look at the article and the study itself and determine which type of research model was used and critique the effectivness of the model and study. I have no desire to get into a research field or clinical research, so I just want to be able to understand the basics. I guess this is the deciding class to tell me I can't or shouldn't do a doctoral program! :ack: I'm hoping someone here has some suggestions. Thanks in advance!