Handbook for clinical research : design, statistics, and implementation / / editors Flora M. Hammond, [and others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459993003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Demos Medical Publishing, LLC, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-78539-066-X; 1-61705-099-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Collana: Rehabilitation Medicine Quick Reference
• Disciplina: 610.72/4
• Soggetti: Clinical trials; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Share Handbook for Clinical Research: Design, Statistics, and Implementation""; ""Part I: Design""; ""Chapter 1: Development and Testing of Treatments""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""; ""Introduction""; ""Implications""; ""Strategies""; ""Pitfalls""; ""Helpful Hints""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 2: Qualitative Research""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""; ""Introduction""; ""Implications""; ""Background""; ""Strengths""; ""Weaknesses""; ""Strategies""; ""Pitfalls""; ""Helpful Hints""; ""Suggested Readings""""Resources""; ""Chapter 3: Single-Case Experimental Designs""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""; ""Introduction""; ""Implications""; ""Background""; ""Strengths""; ""Weaknesses""; ""Controls""; ""Strategies""; ""Pitfalls""; ""Helpful Hints""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Resources""; ""Chapter 4: Studies of Associations""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""; ""Introduction""; ""Implications""; ""Background""; ""Strengths""; ""Weaknesses""; ""Strategies""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 5: Observational Studies: Retrospective Versus Prospective""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""""Introduction""; ""Background and Implications""; ""Strengths""; ""Weaknesses""; ""Strategies""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 6: Historical Controls""; ""Definitions and ; Descriptions""; ""Introduction""; ""Implications""; ""Background""; ""Strengths""; ""Weaknesses""; ""Strategies""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 7: Subject as Own Control""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""; ""Background""; ""Implications""; ""Strengths""; ""Weaknesses""; ""Strategies""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 8: Longitudinal Cohort Versus Cross-Sectional Cohort Studies""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""""Introduction""; ""Background and Implications""; ""Strengths""; ""Weaknesses""; ""Strategies""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 9: Survey Research""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""; ""Introduction""; ""Implications""; ""Background""; ""Strengths""; ""Weaknesses""; ""Strategies""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 10: Choice of Control Groups in Treatment Studies""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""; ""Introduction""; ""Implications""; ""Background""; ""Strategies""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Resource""; ""Chapter 11: Randomization""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""""Introduction""; ""Implications""; ""Background""; ""Strategies""; ""Pitfalls""; ""Helpful Hints""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter 12: Special Issues in Randomized Controlled Trials""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""; ""Introduction""; ""Implications""; ""Background""; ""Strengths""; ""Weaknesses""; ""Strategies""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Resources""; ""Chapter 13: Secondary Data Analysis""; ""Definitions and Descriptions""; ""Introduction""; ""Implications""; ""Background""; ""Strengths""; ""Weaknesses""; ""Strategies""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Resources""