Life & Health Sciences
Public Health & Health Policy
Population-level health research and the policy work it informs, including health-services research, health economics, implementation science, and health technology assessment. Methods lean heavily on observational design, survey research, and evidence synthesis rather than bench technique.
22 pages across 8 topic areas
Patient Safety & Infection Prevention
- Syndromic Surveillance Reporting for Hospitals: The ED Feed, NSSP Onboarding, and the CMS Measure
A hospital syndromic surveillance feed carries near-real-time ED registration and triage data to a public health agency. This guide covers the NSSP Pr…
- Terminal Cleaning Protocol and Audit: The Discharge Sequence, the High-Touch Checklist, and What Each Audit Method Measures
A guide for EVS and infection prevention: the terminal-cleaning discharge sequence, the CDC high-touch surface checklist, disinfectant contact-time (w…
- Epidemic Curve: Choosing the Interval, Onset vs Specimen Date, and Bounding the Exposure Window
The construction decisions behind a hospital epidemic curve: choosing the x-axis interval from the incubation period, why symptom onset and specimen c…
- Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBP): What It Requires That Standard and Contact Precautions Do Not
Enhanced Barrier Precautions require gown and gloves during eight high-contact resident care activities in nursing homes, without the room restriction…
- CPHQ Certification: The Seven Exam Categories, Their Item Counts, and the Eighth Competency Domain
NAHQ publishes item counts, not percentages, for the CPHQ exam. This page reproduces the 2024 Detailed Content Outline category by category, derives t…
- SEP-1: The 3-Hour and 6-Hour Bundle Elements as the Measure Actually Scores Them
SEP-1 is an all-or-nothing, chart-abstracted composite: a hospital can deliver excellent sepsis care and still fail on abstraction technicalities. How…
- Early Warning Score Implementation: Choosing a Score, Calibrating the Threshold, and Managing Alarm Burden
An implementation guide to early warning scores for deteriorating-patient programme leads: choosing between NEWS2, MEWS and machine-learning scores, c…
- Total Performance Score: How Hospital VBP Turns Four Domains Into a Payment Adjustment
The Total Performance Score is the number that decides whether Medicare pays a hospital back more or less than the 2% it withheld. This guide works th…
Research Methods & Statistics
- Questionnaire Design: Writing Survey Questions That Work
A construction guide to the questionnaire-design decisions that determine data quality: question wording, response-option and Likert scale design, que…
- Types of Validity in Research: Measurement Validity vs Design Validity
Measurement validity (face, content, construct, criterion) and design validity (internal, external, statistical-conclusion) are two distinct families …
- Power Analysis and Sample Size Calculation: A Complete Guide
How to run a power analysis to calculate sample size: the four interlocking quantities (effect size, alpha, power, N), a priori vs. post-hoc power, ch…
- Regression Analysis: Assumptions, Interpretation, and How to Report It
A practical guide to choosing between linear, logistic, and other regression models, checking each model’s assumptions, interpreting coefficients and …
Research Integrity & Compliance
- Resolución 8430 de 1993: Colombia’s Research Ethics and Risk-Classification Rules
Colombia’s foundational research-ethics regulation: the sin riesgo / riesgo mínimo / riesgo mayor risk categories with real examples, informed-consent…
- NHRC Nepal Ethical Approval: Online Submission, Fees and ERB Review Timeline
How ethical approval works at the Nepal Health Research Council: the IRERP online portal that replaced the old ERB system, whether your proposal goes …
Scholarly Publishing
- Levels of Evidence: The OCEBM 2011 Table, GRADE, and Where the Pyramid Breaks
A levels-of-evidence hierarchy ranks study design; GRADE rates certainty in one effect estimate for one outcome. This guide sets out what the OCEBM 20…
- The EQUATOR Network: Which Reporting Guideline Does Your Study Need?
A study-design routing table for the EQUATOR Network’s reporting guideline library — CONSORT, PRISMA, STROBE, SPIRIT, STARD, TRIPOD, ARRIVE, SQUIRE, C…
Research Tools & Software
- The PubMed Advanced Search Builder: Numbered History, Field Tags, and Reading Search Details
The Advanced Search page gives you a Builder, a numbered History and a Search Details expander. The third is the one that matters: PubMed routinely ru…
- Covidence vs. Rayyan vs. DistillerSR: Systematic Review Software Compared
Grants Management & Research Funding
- KEMRI: Research Centres, Programmes, and How to Get SERU Approval
KEMRI is Kenya’s national medical research institute. Its research centres and programmes, how the Scientific and Ethics Review Unit (SERU) reviews no…
- DAAD Scholarships: Research Grants, EPOS & How to Apply
DAAD (Germany’s academic exchange service) is not a single scholarship. This guide breaks down its main research-relevant funding lines — Research Gra…
Clinical Research Administration
- VAERS Reporting: Who Must Report, When, and What the Data Can Support
VAERS is a passive, hypothesis-generating surveillance system. This guide covers the statutory reporting duty under 42 U.S.C. 300aa-25, the difference…
Laboratory Compliance & Quality
- CLIA Certification: Certificate Types, Complexity Categories, and Whether Your Lab Needs One
A guide to CLIA certification under 42 CFR Part 493: the five certificate types, waived/moderate/high complexity categories, and the research-lab exem…
