Designing clinical research

Hulley, Stephen B.,

Designing clinical research [E-Book] - Fourth edition. - 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sect. I. Basic ingredients -- Getting started: the anatomy and physiology of clinical research -- Conceiving the research question and developing the study plan -- Choosing the study subjects: specification, sampling, and recruitment -- Planning the measurements: precision, accuracy, and validity -- Getting ready to estimate sample size: hypotheses and underlying principles -- Estimating sample size and power: applications and examples -- Sect. II. Study designs -- Designing cross-sectional and cohort studies -- Designing case-control studies -- Enhancing casual inference in observational studies -- Designing a randomized blinded trial -- Alternative clinical trial designs and implementation issues -- Designing studies of medical tests -- Research using existing data -- Sect. III. Implementation -- Addressing ethical issues -- Designing questionnaires, interviews, and online surveys -- Data management -- Implementing the study and quality control -- Community and international studies -- Writing a proposal for funding research.

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"This book provides a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, in an easy-to-use, readable presentation"--Provided by publisher.

9781469840543 1469840545 9781469875330 1469875330 9781469840536 1469840537

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9781469840543 Ingram Content Group

2013009915

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101603886 DNLM 016321474 Uk


Clinical trials.
Medicine--Research--Methodology.
Epidemiology--Research--Methodology.
Epidemiologic Methods.
Research Design.

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