This text 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