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An insider's guide to clinical trials / Curtis L. Meinert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meinert, Curtis L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clinical trials.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title is designed for budding students of clinical trials novice researchers, and for the serious lay reader wanting to know more about the inner workings of trials, how they are reported, who and what gets studied, what to make of results and how to shop for trials as a patient.
- Contents:
- The language of clinical trials
- The recipe for trials
- The stages of trials
- The anatomy of trials
- Authorship and credits
- The nature of trials
- The ethics of trials
- Regulation of trials
- Research misconduct
- Myths regarding trials
- "Tricks" of the trade from a cynic
- Reading between the lines, or how to read a journal article
- Critics and criticisms
- What to make of results
- Biostatistics 101
- Subgroup analysis vs data dredging
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Re-search
- Shopping for a trial?
- Readings
- Clinical trials and our health
- Final exam
- Last words.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-987665-7
- 1-283-11629-4
- 9786613116291
- OCLC:
- 767864782
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