Practical Biostatistics in Translational Healthcare

• Main Authors: Khakshooy, Allen M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Chiappelli, Francesco (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: General practice (Medicine).; Dentistry.; Nursing.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

There is an ever-increasing emphasis on evidence-based medicine that is distinguished by systematic crafting of the patient-centered research question, detailed literature searches, and careful appraisal of the resulting evidence. The consensus that ultimately emerges must then be applied in specifi...

Table of Contents:

• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: Methodology Issues: Realistic deliverable outcomes in Practice-based research networks
• Design Issues: Randomized clinical trials vs. Clustered randomized clinical trials
• Analysis issues: Patient-centered vs. group data analyses & inferences. Bayesian-ism vs. Frequentist-ism in CEERAP: Data and measurements
• Diagnostic and prognostic inferences
• Quantifying the best evidence. Toward TEA: Acceptable sampling
• Meta-analysis
• Validating inferences of clinical relevance.