Designing Clinical Research sets the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy-to-read, uncomplicated presentation.

Designing Clinical Research Third Edition incorporates current research methodology—including molecular and genetic clinical research—and offers an updated syllabus for conducting a clinical research workshop.

Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. The book explains how to choose well-focused research questions and details the steps through all the elements of study design, data collection, quality assurance, and basic grant-writing. All chapters have been thoroughly revised, updated, and made more user-friendly.

Contents

Basic Ingredients

1. Getting started: The anatomy and physiology of clinical research
2. Conceiving the research question
3. Choosing the study subjects: Specification, sampling, and recruitment
4. Planning the measurements: Precision and accuracy
5. Getting ready to estimate sample size: Hypotheses and underlying principles
6. Estimating sample size and power: Applications and examples

Study Designs

7. Designing a cohort study
8. Designing cross-sectional and case-control studies
9. Enhancing causal inference in observational studies
10. Designing a randomized blinded trial
11. Altrenative trial designs and implementation issues
12. Designing studies of medical tests
13. Utilizing existing databases

Implementation

14. Addressing ethical issues
15. Designing questionnaires and interviews
16. Data management
17. Implementing the study and quality control
18. Community and international studies
19. Writing and funding a research proposal

Exercises
Answers to exercises

Index

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