TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hulley Stephen B. 
AU  - Cummings Steven R. 
AU  - Browner Warren S. 
AU  - Grady Deborah 
AU  - Newman Thomas B.
TI  -  Designing clinical research
SN  -  9781608318049
AV  - R853.C55 H85 2013 
PY  - 2013///
CY  -  Philadelphia
PB  - Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
KW  - Clinical trials
KW  - Epidemiologic Methods
KW  - Epidemiology Research Methodology
KW  - Medicine Research Methodology
KW  - Health and Fitness
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - Research Design
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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