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Understanding clinical papers David Bowers, Allan House, David Owens

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chichester John Wiley 2006Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 232 p 25 cmISBN:
  • 0470091304
  • 9780470091302
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.72
LOC classification:
  • HPA R
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.
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4 Week Loan St. Luke's General Hospital Kilkenny St. Luke's General Hospital Kilkenny Open Shelves 808.06661 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 032370
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Previous ed.: 2001

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

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