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Surveys, Epidemiological Research, Programme Evaluation, Clinical Trials
J. H. Abramson, Z. H. Abramson
ISBN: 9780470986615
Format: Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition: 6th Revised edition
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This book is written for students and practitioners of community medicine and public health (epidemiologists, family physicians, nurses, health educators, administrators, and others) who are interested in planning investigations of groups and populations, such as health surveys, cohort studies, comparisons of cases and controls, prophylactic and therapeutic trials, and other epidemiological and evaluative research. The book may also be helpful to non…
* A simple and systematic guide to the planning and performance of investigations concerned with health and disease and with health care * Offers researchers help in choosing a topic and to think about shaping objectives and ideas and to link these with the appropriate choice of method * Fully updated with new sections on the use of the Web and computer programmes freely available in the planning, performance or analysis of studies
| ISBN | 0470986611 | | Pages | 422 | | ISBN13 | 9780470986615
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 688 | | Imprint | Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) | | Published in | Chicester | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780470987230 | | Publication date | 14 Mar 2008 | | Height (mm) | 246 | | Library of Congress | RA408.5 | | Width (mm) | 169 | | DEWEY | 362.1072 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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| 1 | | First steps | | 1 | | 2 | | Types of investigation | | 13 | | 3 | | Stages of an investigation | | 35 | | 4 | | Formulating the objectives | | 39 | | 5 | | The objectives of evaluative studies | | 49 | | 6 | | The study population | | 61 | | 7 | | Control groups | | 69 | | 8 | | Sampling | | 77 | | 9 | | Selecting cases and controls for case-control studies | | 91 | | 10 | | The variables | | 101 | | 11 | | Defining the variables | | 109 | | 12 | | Definitions of diseases | | 117 | | 13 | | Scales of measurement | | 125 | | 14 | | Composite scales | | 133 | | 15 | | Methods of collecting data | | 143 | | 16 | | Reliability | | 151 | | 17 | | Validity | | 161 | | 18 | | Interviews and self-administered questionnaires | | 179 | | 19 | | Constructing a questionnaire | | 193 | | 20 | | Surveying the opinions of a panel: consensus methods | | 203 | | 21 | | The use of documentary sources | | 209 | | 22 | | Planning the records | | 225 | | 23 | | Planning the handling of data | | 233 | | 24 | | Pretests and other preparations | | 241 | | 25 | | Collecting the data | | 247 | | 26 | | Statistical analysis | | 251 | | 27 | | Interpreting the findings | | 259 | | | More... | | |
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