Focus Groups: A Selective Annotated Bibliography : Medical and Health Sciences

In this second volume in a two-volume set (reprint, 2008), Walden, a librarian at Ohio State U., compiles focus group studies and research literature in English from 1998 to 2007 in medical and health sciences. About 600 articles from instructional guides, handbooks, textbooks, and journals are annotated, on topics in methodology; health professions; public health; the practice of medicine; surgery; psychiatry; disorders of system, metabolic, or environmental origin; communicable diseases; different body systems; gynecology; dermatology; pediatrics; geriatrics; dentistry; ophthalmology; hospitals; nursing; and special topics. Articles in which focus groups were not central to the investigative technique are omitted, as are book reviews, conference proceedings, critical works, editorials, internet resources, letters, mass-market periodicals, theses and dissertations, newspaper articles, and opinion pieces. The book is intended for medical personnel, undergraduate and graduate students, and professional focus group practitioners. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Graham R. Walden is a librarian and professor at Ohio State University.