Includes the following key features:

• Evaluation Checklists: straightforward guides to help the reader evaluate a research article for quality and application to practice.
  
• Concepts in Action: real-life research to illustrate and illuminate the important concepts of practice-based research. Each is a description of a real-life project, with limitations and weaknesses included. These help the reader grasp how research actually looks in a practice setting, and encourages the reader to try research even if they can't achieve perfection.
  
• Hitting the Stacks: actual selections of research articles to illustrate key concepts
  
• Where to Look: guidance to find and critique specific elements in a research article.
  
• From the Mouths of Bedside Scientists: students, colleagues, and bedside scientists explain specific research and concepts.
  
• From More Depth and Detail: directs the reader to more comprehensive and detailed text for more advanced reading.