Designing clinical 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hulley, Stephen B. (-)
Otros Autores: Cummings, Steven R., Browner, Warren S., Grady, Deborah, Newman, Thomas B.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins [2013]
Edición:4th ed
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37517995*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.