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Designing Clinical Research: An Epidemiologic Approach

by Stephen B. Hulley, Steven R. Cummings, Warren S. Browner, Deborah G. Grady, Thomas B. Newman
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Overview

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.

Designing Clinical Research has set the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy to read, uncomplicated presentation. Updated chapters incorporate current research methodology, with an updated syllabus for conducting a clinical research workshop. A Brandon-Hill recommended title.

Synopsis

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.

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A text on planning and implementing clinical research, for beginning investigators. Section I examines basic ingredients of research, such as selection of study subjects, hypotheses, and estimating sample sizes. Section II presents design options, covering cohort, cross- sectional, case-control and diagnostic test studies, clinical trials, and confounding. Section III looks at additional skills in ethics, data management, and community and international studies. Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. This edition contains new chapters on medical test studies and secondary data. Hulley is affiliated with the University of California-San Francisco. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
November 1, 2006
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Pages
384
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780781782104

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