Understanding clinical papers/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester ; Hoboken, New Jersey:
John Wiley & Sons,
2011, c2006
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The abstract and introduction
- The objectives
- Descriptive studies
- Analytic studies
- Intervention studies
- The research setting
- Populations and samples
- Identifying and defining cases
- Controls and comparisons
- Identifying the characteristics of data
- Summarizing the characteristics of data
- Measuring the characteristics of subjects
- Measuring the characteristics of measures
- Measuring scales
- Fractions, proportions and rates
- Risk and odds
- Ratios of risks and odds
- Confidence intervals for means, proportions, and medians
- Confidence intervals for ratios
- Testing hypotheses - the p-value
- Measuring association
- Measuring agreement
- The linear regression model
- The logistic regression model
- Systematic review and meta-analysis
- Measuring survival
- Results in text and tables
- Results in pictures
- The discussion and the conclusions.