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9780781745246

Clinical Epidemiology How to Do Clinical Practice Research

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  • ISBN13:

    9780781745246

  • ISBN10:

    0781745241

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-09-21
  • Publisher: LWW

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Summary

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

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
PART ONE Performing Clinical Research
Forming Research Questions
3(12)
Conducting Systematic Reviews
15(34)
Finding Information About the Burden of Disease
49(10)
An Introduction to Performing Therapeutic Trials
59(7)
The Tactics of Performing Therapeutic Trials
66(107)
The Principles Behind the Tactics of Performing Therapeutic Trials
173(71)
Testing Quality Improvement Interventions
244(29)
Evaluating Diagnostic Tests
273(50)
Determining Prognosis and Creating Clinical Decision Rules
323(33)
Assessing Claims of Causation
356(32)
Generating Outcome Measurements, Especially for Quality of Life
388(27)
PART TWO Becoming a Clinical Researcher
Becoming a Successful Clinician-investigator
415(14)
Preparing a Research Protocol to Improve its Chances for Success
429(11)
Online Data Collection
440(6)
Analyzing Data
446(15)
Preparing Reports for Publication and Responding to Reviewers' Comments
461(13)
Dealing with the Media
474(13)
Index 487

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