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An Epidemiologic Approach
Stephen B. Hulley, Steven R. Cummings, Warren S. Browner, Deborah G. Grady, Thomas B. Newman
ISBN: 9780781782104
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
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Provides a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research. This edition explains how to choose well-focused research questions and details the steps through all the elements of study design, data collection, quality assurance, and basic grant-writing.
Designing Clinical Research sets the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy-to-read, uncomplicated presentation. This edition incorporates current research methodology--including molecular and genetic clinical research--and offers an updated syllabus for conducting a clinical research workshop. Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. The book explains how to choose well-focused research questions and details the steps through all the elements of study design, data collection, quality assurance, and basic grant-writing. All chapters have been thoroughly revised, updated, and made more user-friendly.
| ISBN | 0781782104 | | Pages | 384 | | ISBN13 | 9780781782104
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | | Weight (grammes) | 653 | | Imprint | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | | Published in | Philadelphia | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780781722186 | | Publication date | 01 Dec 2006 | | Height (mm) | 254 | | Library of Congress | R853.C55 D | | Width (mm) | 178 | | DEWEY | 610.724 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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| 1 | | Getting started : the anatomy and physiology of clinical research | | 3 | | 2 | | Conceiving the research question | | 17 | | 3 | | Choosing the study subjects : specification, sampling, and recruitment | | 27 | | 4 | | Planning the measurements : precision and accuracy | | 37 | | 5 | | Getting ready to estimate sample size : hypotheses and underlying principles | | 51 | | 6 | | Estimating sample size and power : applications and examples | | 65 | | 7 | | Designing a cohort study | | 97 | | 8 | | Designing cross-sectional and case-control studies | | 109 | | 9 | | Enhancing causal inference in observational studies | | 127 | | 10 | | Designing a randomized blinded trial | | 147 | | 11 | | Alternative trial designs and implementation issues | | 163 | | 12 | | Designing studies of medical tests | | 183 | | 13 | | Utilizing existing databases | | 207 | | 14 | | Addressing ethical issues | | 225 | | 15 | | Designing questionnaires and interviews | | 241 | | 16 | | Data management | | 257 | | 17 | | Implementing the study and quality control | | 271 | | 18 | | Community and international studies | | 291 | | 19 | | Writing and funding a research proposal | | 301 |
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