Designing clinical research

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Health Sciences Library — Books (3rd floor)

Call Number
WA 950 D457 2007
Status
Available

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Summary

Designing Clinical Research sets the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy-to-read, uncomplicated presentation. This edition incorporates current research methodology--including molecular and genetic clinical research--and offers an updated syllabus for conducting a clinical research workshop.

Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. The book explains how to choose well-focused research questions and details the steps through all the elements of study design, data collection, quality assurance, and basic grant-writing. All chapters have been thoroughly revised, updated, and made more user-friendly.

Contents

  • Basic Ingredients
  • Getting Started: The Anatomy and Physiology of Clinical Research Stephen B. Hulley and Thomas B. Newman and Steven R. Cummings
  • Conceiving the Research Question Steven R. Cummings and Warren S. Browner and Stephen B. Hulley
  • Choosing the Study Subjects: Specification, Sampling, and Recruitment Stephen B. Hulley and Thomas B. Newman and Steven R. Cummings
  • Planning the Measurements: Precision and Accuracy Stephen B. Hulley and Steven R. Cummings
  • Getting Ready to Estimate Sample Size: Hypotheses and Underlying Principles Warren S. Browner and Thomas B. Newman and Stephen B. Hulley
  • Estimating Sample Size and Power: Applications and Examples Warren S. Browner and Thomas B. Newman and Stephen B. Hulley
  • Study Designs
  • Designing an Observational Study: Cohort Studies Steven R. Cummings and Thomas B. Newman and Stephen B. Hulley
  • Designing an Observational Study: Cross-sectional and Case-control Studies Thomas B. Newman and Warren S. Browner and Steven R. Cummings and Stephen B. Hulley
  • Enhancing Causal Inference in Observational Studies Thomas B. Newman and Warren S. Browner and Stephen B. Hulley
  • Designing a Randomized Blinded Trial Steven R. Cummings and Deborah Grady and Stephen B. Hulley
  • Alternative Trial Designs and Implementation Issues Deborah Grady and Steven R. Cummings and Stephen B. Hulley
  • Designing Studies of Medical Tests Thomas B. Newman and Warren S. Browner and Steven R. Cummings
  • Research Using Existing Databases: Secondary Data Analysis, Ancillary Studies, and Systematic Reviews Deborah Grady and Norman Hearst
  • Implementation
  • Addressing Ethical Issues Bernard Lo
  • Designing Questionnaires and Interviews Steven R. Cummings and Stephen B. Hulley
  • Data Management Michael A. Kohn
  • Implementing the Study: Pretesting, Quality Control, and Protocol Revisions Stephen B. Hulley and Steven R. Cummings
  • Community and International Studies Norman Hearst and Thomas Novotny
  • Writing and Funding a Research Proposal Steven R. Cummings and Stephen B. Hulley
  • Chapter Exercises

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