Synopses & Reviews
Designing Clinical Research has beenand#160;extensively revised and continues to set the standard as a practical guide for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals involved in all forms of clinical, translational, and public health research. It presents advanced epidemiologic concepts in a reader-friendly way, and suggests common sense approaches to the challenging judgments involved in designing, funding, and implementing.
New to this edition:
- Expanded and updated content in every chapter, with new material on: andbull; non-inferiority trials for comparative effectiveness research andbull; incidence-density case-control studies andbull; confounding and effect modification andbull; diagnostic test studies to inform prediction rules andbull; ethical aspects of whole genome sequencing andbull; automated data management approaches andbull; new NIH grant-writing requirements
- Color format, and Electronic access, powered by Inklingandtrade; as a free companion to the text andbull; viewable through your browser or as a download to tablet or smartphone andbull; the complete text with optimized navigation andbull; note-sharing, highlighting and bookmarking capability andbull; cross-linking of references and content andbull; rapid search options linked to the new glossary
Synopsis
Designing Clinical Research sets the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy-to-read, uncomplicated presentation. This product incorporates current research methodology--including molecular and genetic clinical research--and offers an updated syllabus for conducting a clinical research workshop. Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. The book explains how to choose well-focused research questions and details the steps through all the elements of study design, data collection, quality assurance, and basic grant-writing.