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Clinical epidemiology : how to do clinical practice research / R. Brian Haynes [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haynes, R. Brian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clinical epidemiology.
- Medicine--Research--Epidemiology.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (512 p.)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Forming research questions
- Conducting systematic reviews
- Finding information about the burden of disease
- An introduction to performing therapeutic trials
- The tactics of performing therapeutic trials
- The principles behind the tactics of performing therapeutic trials
- Performing quality improvement studies
- Evaluating diagnostic tests
- Determining prognosis and creating clinical decision rules
- Assessing claims of causation
- Generating measurements, especially for the quality of life
- Becoming a successful clinician-investigator
- Preparing a research protocol to improve its chances for success
- Collecting data online
- Analyzing data
- Preparing reports for publication and responding to reviewers' comments
- Dealing with the media.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781451118612
- 1451118619
- 9781469874340
- 1469874342
- OCLC:
- 923525515
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