Edition |
Fourth edition. |
Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Clinical trials.
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Clinical trials. |
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Medicine -- Research -- Methodology.
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Medicine -- Research -- Methodology. |
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Epidemiology -- Research -- Methodology.
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Epidemiology -- Research -- Methodology. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Cummings, Steven R., author.
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Browner, Warren S., author.
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Grady, Deborah, author.
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Newman, Thomas B., author.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Hulley, Stephen B. Designing clinical research. Fourth edition. Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2013] 9781608318049 (DLC) 2013009915 (OCoLC)830019201 |
ISBN |
9781469840543 (electronic book) |
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1469840545 (electronic book) |
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1469875330 |
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9781469875330 |
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9781608318049 (paperback) |
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1608318044 |
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