Understanding Clinical Papers - House, Allan

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Auteur(s) : House, Allan - Bewick, Bridgette - Owens, David - Bowers, David

Editeur : John Wiley And Sons Ltd

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 30/11/2020

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 304

Expédition : 616

Dimensions : 23.4 x 18.6 x 1.5

ISBN : 1119573165

Résumé :

For two decades,?Understanding Clinical Papers?has been helping?students and professionals?understand?the?research that supports?evidence-based practice. Now in its fourth edition, this popular?introductory?textbook?covers every?major?aspect of?reading?and evaluating?clinical research literature, from identifying the aims and objectives of a paper to?analysing?the data with different multivariable methods.?Numerous?excerpts?from actual clinical?research?papers?make?learning?real and immediate,?supported by a unique visual approach that reinforces?key points and connects?examples?with the chapter material.?

The fourth edition?includes extensively?revised content throughout,?including?four brand-new chapters covering qualitative?studies, Poisson regression, studies of complex interventions, and research using?previously?collected data.?New and updated material?discusses?the?difference between clinical and statistical significance, the consequences of multiple testing?and methods of correction,?how?topic guides are used to explore and explain participants' experiences, standardised guidelines for writing trials and reviews, and much more. Offering clear explanations of important research-related topics, this reader-friendly resource:?

• Offers a clear, concise, and accessible approach to learning how to read and?analyse?clinical research literature?
• Features new?coverage?of?qualitative?research, including?descriptive studies,?sampling and populations,?and?identifying,?summarising, and measuring qualitative?characteristics??
• Provides new?material on missing data,?sub-group analysis,?feasibility and pilot studies, cluster?randomised?trials, and adaptive trial designs?
• Includes new tables, abstracts, and excerpts from recent clinical research literature?

Understanding Clinical Papers?is essential reading for all healthcare professionals and students, particularly those involved in clinical work and medical research, as well as general readers wanting to improve their understanding of research literature.?

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Biographie:

DAVID BOWERS, Medical Statistician, University of Leeds Medical School, UK.

ALLAN HOUSE, Professor, Director of Leeds Institute of Health Science, University of Leeds, UK.

DAVID OWENS, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Leeds Institute of Health Science, University of Leeds, UK.

BRIDGETTE BEWICK, Senior Lecturer in Health Research, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, UK....

Sommaire:

Preface to the First Edition vii

Preface to the Second Edition ix

Preface to the Third Edition xi

Preface to the Fourth Edition xii

Part I Setting the Scene: Who Did What, and Why 1

1 Some Preliminaries 3

2 The Abstract and Introduction 8

3 The Aims and Objectives 15

Part II Design Matters: What Type of Study Is It? 21

4 Descriptive Studies: Qualitative 23

5 Descriptive Studies: Quantitative 29

6 Analytic Studies 36

7 Intervention Studies 45

8 Mixed Methods Research 57

9 Studies of Complex Interventions 60

10 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 65

11 Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies 75

Part III The Cast: Finding Out About the Subjects of the Research 79

12 The Research Setting 81

13 Populations and Samples in Quantitative Research 85

14 Research Using Already-Collected Data 90

15 The Sample in Qualitative Research 95

16 Identifying and Defining Cases 99

17 Controls and Comparisons 102

Part IV Establishing The Facts: Starting With Basic Observations 107

18 Identifying the Characteristics of Quantitative Data 109

19 Summarizing the Characteristics of Quantitative Data 116

20 Identifying and Summarising the Characteristics of Qualitative Data 121

21 Measuring the Characteristics of Participants: Quantitative 124

22 Measuring the Characteristics of Participants: Qualitative 130

23 Diagnostic Tests: Measuring the Characteristics of Measures 133

24 Measurement Scales 138

25 Exploring and Explaining: Topic Guides 150

Part V Establishing More of the Facts: Some Common Ways of Describing Results 153

26 Fractions, Proportions, and Rates 155

27 Risks and Odds 157

28 Ratios of Risks and Odds 160

Part VI Analysing the Data: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing 167

29 Confidence Intervals for Means, Proportions, and Medians 169

30 Confidence Intervals for Ratios 176

31 Testing Hypotheses - The p-value 181

Part VII Analysing the Data: Multivariable Methods 197

32 Measuring Association 199

33 Measuring Agreement 206

34 Linear Regression 211

35 Logistic Regression 222

36 Poisson Regression 228

37 Measuring Survival 237

38 Analysing Qualitative Data 244

Part VIII Reading Between the Lines: How Authors Use Text, Tables, and Pictures to Tell You the Story 249

39 Results in Text and Tables 251

40 Results in Pictures 260

41 The Discussion and Conclusions 270

References 274

Index 282