Designing clinical research/
Hulley Stephen B.
Designing clinical research/ Stephen B. Hulley (Author), Steven R. Cummings , Warren S. Browner, Deborah Grady , Thomas B. Newman - 4th.edition - Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2013 - xiii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
previous edition published in 2007 by lippincott william &wilkins,a walters kluwer business
Includes Bibliographical refrences and Index
CONTENTS
Sect. I. Basic ingredients:
1.Getting started: the anatomy and physiology of clinical research--
2.Conceiving the research question and developing the study plan--
3.Choosing the study subjects: specification, sampling, and recruitment--
4.Planning the measurements: precision, accuracy, and validity--
5.Getting ready to estimate sample size: hypotheses and underlying principles--
6.Estimating sample size and power: applications and examples
Sect. II. Study designs:
7.Designing cross-sectional and cohort studies--
8.Designing case-control studies--
9.Enhancing casual inference in observational studies--
10.Designing a randomized blinded trial
11.Alternative clinical trial designs and implementation issues--
12.Designing studies of medical tests--
13.Research using existing data--
Sect. III. Implementation:
14.Addressing ethical issues--
15.Designing questionnaires, interviews, and online surveys--
16.Data management--
17.Implementing the study and quality control--
18.Community and international studies--
19.Writing a proposal for funding research.
"This book provides a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, in an easy-to-use, readable presentation"--Provided by publisher
9781608318049 9781469840543 9781469875330 9781469840536 1608318044 1469840545 1469875330
Clinical trials
Epidemiologic Methods
Epidemiology Research Methodology
Medicine Research Methodology
Health and Fitness
Health and Wellbeing
Research Design
R853.C55 H85 2013
Designing clinical research/ Stephen B. Hulley (Author), Steven R. Cummings , Warren S. Browner, Deborah Grady , Thomas B. Newman - 4th.edition - Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2013 - xiii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
previous edition published in 2007 by lippincott william &wilkins,a walters kluwer business
Includes Bibliographical refrences and Index
CONTENTS
Sect. I. Basic ingredients:
1.Getting started: the anatomy and physiology of clinical research--
2.Conceiving the research question and developing the study plan--
3.Choosing the study subjects: specification, sampling, and recruitment--
4.Planning the measurements: precision, accuracy, and validity--
5.Getting ready to estimate sample size: hypotheses and underlying principles--
6.Estimating sample size and power: applications and examples
Sect. II. Study designs:
7.Designing cross-sectional and cohort studies--
8.Designing case-control studies--
9.Enhancing casual inference in observational studies--
10.Designing a randomized blinded trial
11.Alternative clinical trial designs and implementation issues--
12.Designing studies of medical tests--
13.Research using existing data--
Sect. III. Implementation:
14.Addressing ethical issues--
15.Designing questionnaires, interviews, and online surveys--
16.Data management--
17.Implementing the study and quality control--
18.Community and international studies--
19.Writing a proposal for funding research.
"This book provides a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, in an easy-to-use, readable presentation"--Provided by publisher
9781608318049 9781469840543 9781469875330 9781469840536 1608318044 1469840545 1469875330
Clinical trials
Epidemiologic Methods
Epidemiology Research Methodology
Medicine Research Methodology
Health and Fitness
Health and Wellbeing
Research Design
R853.C55 H85 2013