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| THE LANCET HANDBOOK OF ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS IN CLINICAL RESEARCH
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By
Kenneth Schulz, PhD, MBA, Vice President of Quantitative Sciences, Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, NC; Clinical Professor, Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, NC, USA
David Grimes, MD, Vice President of Biomedical Affairs, Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, NC; Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Description
The needs of clinicians predominate throughout the text, but these needs overlap with those of researchers especially in chapters covering
randomized controlled trials. For readers to assess trials accurately they need to understand relevant guidelines on the conduct of
trials that are emerging from methodological research. In presenting these discussions to clinicians these chapters will help researchers
who also do randomized trials and provide a methodological background that enhances the quality and quantity of their research productivity.
Contents
An overview of clinical research: the lay of the land.
Descriptive studies: what they can and cannot do.
Bias and causal associations
in observational research.
Cohort studies: marching towards outcome.
Case-control studies: research in reverse.
Generation of
allocation sequences in randomized trials: chance, not choice.
Allocation concealment in randomized trials: defending against deciphering.
Sample
size slippages in randomized trials: exclusions and the lost and wayward.
Blinding in randomized trials: hiding who got what.
Uses
and abuses of screening tests.
Unequal group sizes in randomized trials: guarding against guessing.
Sample size calculations in
randomized trials: mandatory and mystical.
Compared to what? Finding controls for case-control studies.
Refining clinical diagnosis
with likelihood ratios.
Multiplicity in randomized trials I: endpoints and treatments.
Multiplicity in randomized trials II: subgroup
and interim analyses.
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Paperback, 242 pages, publication date: APR-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-044866-4
ISBN-10: 0-08-044866-6
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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