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"This book provides a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, in an easy-to-use, readable presentation"--Provided by publisher.
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A text on planning and implementing clinical research, for beginning investigators. Section I examines basic ingredients of research, such as selection of study subjects, hypotheses, and estimating sample sizes. Section II presents design options, covering cohort, cross-sectional, case-control and diagnostic test studies, clinical trials, and confounding. Section III looks at additional skills in ethics, data management, and community and international studies. Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. This edition contains new chapters on medical test studies and secondary data. Hulley is affiliated with the University of California-San Francisco. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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