DESIGNING CLINICAL RESEARCH

Author: Stephen Hulley, M.D., M.P.H., Steven Cummings, M.D., Warren Browner, M.D., M.P.H., Deborah Grady, M.D., M.P.H., Thomas Newman, M.D., M.P.H.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN 10: 0781782104
ISBN 13: 9780781782104
Edition: 3rd

Description:

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 edition 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. All chapters have been thoroughly revised, updated, and made more user-friendly.

Table of Contents

Front Matter

SECTION I Basic Ingredients

SECTION II Study Designs

SECTION III Implementation

Exercises

Answers to Exercises