Clinical epidemiology : how to do clinical practice research
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Clinical epidemiology : how to do clinical practice research
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006
3rd ed
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Description
The Third Edition of this popular text focuses on clinical-practice research methods. It is written by clinicians with experience in generating and answering researchable questions about real-world clinical practice and health care-the prevention, treatment, diagnosis, prognosis, and causes of diseases, the measurement of quality of life, and the effects of innovations in health services. The book has a problem-oriented and protocol-based approach and is written at an introductory level, emphasizing key principles and their applications.
A bound-in CD-ROM contains the full text of the book to help the reader locate needed information.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: Performing Clinical Research
Forming Research Questions.... 3
Conducting Systematic Reviews.... 15
Finding Information About the Burden of Disease.... 49
An Introduction to Performing Therapeutic Trials.... 59
The Tactics of Performing Therapeutic Trials.... 66
The Principles Behind the Tactics of Performing Therapeutic Trials.... 173
Testing Quality Improvement Interventions.... 244
Evaluating Diagnostic Tests.... 273
Determining Prognosis and Creating Clinical Decision Rules.... 323
Assessing Claims of Causation.... 356
Generating Outcome Measurements, Especially for Quality of Life.... 388
PART TWO: Becoming a Clinical Researcher
Becoming a Successful Clinician-Investigator.... 415
Preparing a Research Protocol to Improve its Chances for Success.... 429
Online Data Collection.... 440
Analyzing Data.... 446
Preparing Reports for Publication and Responding to Reviewers' Comments.... 461
Dealing with the Media.... 474
Index.... 487
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