BookStephen B Hulley, Steven R. Cummings, Warren S. Browner, Deborah G. Grady, Thomas B. Newman.
Summary: "This book provides a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, in an easy-to-use, readable presentation"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
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
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
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.