| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: monographic
|
| Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
Hulley, Stephen B. |
| Place of Publication: |
Philadelphia |
| Published: |
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2007. |
| Edition: |
3rd ed. |
| Description: |
xv, 367 p.ill. : |
| Subject: |
Epidemiologic Methods - |
| Subject: |
Research Design - |
| ISBN: |
0781782104 |
| Content Note: |
Designing a randomized blinded trial -- Alternative trial designs and implementation issues -- Designing studies of medical tests -- Utilizing existing databases -- Addressing ethical issues -- Designing questionnaries and interviews -- Data management -- Implementing the study and quality control -- Community and international studies -- Writing and funding a research proposal. |
| Content Note: |
Getting started: the anatomy and physiology of clinical research -- Conceiving the research question -- Choosing the study subjects: specification, sampling, and recruitment -- Planning the measurements: precision and accuracy -- Getting ready to estimate sample size: hypotheses and underlying principles -- Estimating sample size and power: applications and examples -- Designing a cohort study -- Designing cross-sectional and case-control studies -- Enhancing causal inference in observational studies -- |