Designing Clinical Research

Name: Designing Clinical Research
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ISBN: 9781608318049

ISBN-10: 1608318044

ISBN-13: 9781608318049

Edition: 4th 2014 (Revised)

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

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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 product 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.

Book details

List price: $76.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication date: 7/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 378
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



Contributing Authors


Introduction


Acknowledgments



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




Study Designs



Designing Cross-Sectional and Cohort Studies




Designing Case-Control Studies




Enhancing Causal 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




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



Exercises


Answers to Exercises


Glossary


Index