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A concise guide to observational studies in healthcare / Allan Hackshaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hackshaw, Allan K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Research--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Medicine.
- Medical care--Evaluation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Medical care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Concise Guide to Observational Studies in Healthcare provides busy healthcare professionals with an easy-to-read introduction and overview to conducting, analysing and assessing observational studies.It is a suitable introduction for anyone without prior knowledge of study design, analysis or conduct as the important concepts are presented throughout the text. It provides an overview to the features of design, analyses and conduct of observational studies, without using mathematical formulae, or complex statistics or terminology and is a useful guide for researchers conducting their own
- Contents:
- Fundamental concepts
- Outcome measures, risk factors, and causality
- Effect sizes and regression methods
- Studies based on patient medical records
- Cross-sectional studies
- Case-control studies
- Cohort studies
- Quality of care studies
- Prognostic markers for predicting outcomes
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Conducting and reporting observational studies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781118526972
- 111852697X
- 9781118527122
- 1118527127
- 9781118527030
- 1118527038
- OCLC:
- 899134747
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