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Designing clinical research/ Stephen B. Hulley (Author), Steven R. Cummings , Warren S. Browner, Deborah Grady , Thomas B. Newman

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2013Edition: 4th.editionDescription: xiii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781608318049
  • 9781469840543
  • 9781469875330
  • 9781469840536
  • 1608318044
  • 1469840545
  • 1469875330
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • R853.C55 H85 2013
Contents:
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.
Summary: "This book provides a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, in an easy-to-use, readable presentation"--Provided by publisher
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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

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