Publisher's Synopsis
Due to a perceived lack of training programmes for clinicians engaged in patient research, this concise step-by-step instructional manual aims to fill a void and offers the basic information needed by clinical investigators in all medical specialties.;Written by experienced researchers, it provides a guide to the framework for the fundamental issues that new investigators must address; such as how to design and conduct a research study, how to prepare a grant application, how to prepare a protocol, how to protect the rights of human subjects, how to handle conflicts of interest, how to analyze the results of a study, and how to write a scientific paper based on the results obtained.
