TY - BOOK AU - Hulley,Stephen B. AU - Cummings,Steven R. AU - Browner,Warren S. AU - Grady,Deborah AU - Newman,Thomas B. TI - Designing clinical research SN - 9781469840543 PY - 2013///] CY - Philadelphia PB - Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins KW - Clinical trials KW - Medicine KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Epidemiology KW - Epidemiologic Methods KW - Research Design N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Sect. I. Basic ingredients -- Getting started: the anatomy and physiology of clinical research -- Conceiving the research question and developing the study plan -- Choosing the study subjects: specification, sampling, and recruitment -- Planning the measurements: precision, accuracy, and validity -- Getting ready to estimate sample size: hypotheses and underlying principles -- Estimating sample size and power: applications and examples -- Sect. II. Study designs -- Designing cross-sectional and cohort studies -- Designing case-control studies -- Enhancing casual inference in observational studies -- Designing a randomized blinded trial -- Alternative clinical trial designs and implementation issues -- Designing studies of medical tests -- Research using existing data -- Sect. III. Implementation -- Addressing ethical issues -- Designing questionnaires, interviews, and online surveys -- Data management -- Implementing the study and quality control -- Community and international studies -- Writing a proposal for funding research; Licence conditions preclude Library use of accompanying Website; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) N2 - "This book provides a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, in an easy-to-use, readable presentation"--Provided by publisher UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?custid=ns123844&authtype=ip,shib&direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1473052 ER -