Clinical Research Methods for Surgeons

Clinical Research Methods for Surgeons

Clinical Research Methods for Surgeons is a comprehensive guide for the surgical scientist, and serves as both a critical review of existing literature and a reference guide for clinical research methodologies as they apply to surgery. The text addresses the clinical research questions facing 21st c...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Penson, David F. (Editor), Wei, John T. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Medicine.
Surgery.
Medicine & Public Health.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Building a Foundation for Clinical Research
  • Planning the Research
  • Ethical Issues in Clinical Research
  • Budget Development and Staffing
  • Clinical Research Design and Statistical Techniques
  • Nonrandomized Interventional Study Designs (Quasi-Experimental Designs)
  • Randomized Clinical Trials of Surgical Procedures
  • Use of Observational Databases (Registries) in Research
  • Risk Adjustment
  • Basic Statistical Methods
  • Survival Analyses
  • Assessing the Performance and Validity of Diagnostic Tests and Screening Programs
  • Secondary Data Analyses
  • Outcome Measurement
  • Traditional Outcome Measures
  • Health-Related Quality of Life
  • Measuring Patient Satisfaction
  • Special Topics In Surgical Clinical Research
  • Quality of Care
  • Cost-Effectiveness Analyses
  • Qualitative Research Techniques
  • Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.

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