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Designing clinical research [E-Book]

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2013]Edition: Fourth editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469840543
  • 1469840545
  • 9781469875330
  • 1469875330
  • 9781469840536
  • 1469840537
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WA 950
  • WA 950
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Contents:
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.
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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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.

"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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