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Bowers David <1938-> |
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Titolo |
Understanding clinical papers / / David Bowers [and three others] |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK : , : John Wiley & Sons Inc., , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-118-76028-X |
1-118-76000-X |
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Edizione |
[Third edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 recurso en línea (380 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medical literature |
Medical statistics |
Medical writing |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Some preliminaries -- The abstract and introduction -- The aims and objectives -- Descriptive studies : qualitative -- Descriptive studies : quantitative -- Analytic studies -- Intervention studies -- Mixed methods studies -- The research setting -- Populations and samples in quantitative research -- The sample in qualitative research -- Identifying and defining cases -- Controls and comparisons -- Identifying the characteristics of quantitative data -- Summarising the characteristics of quantitative data -- Identifying and summarising the characteristics of qualitative data -- Measuring the characteristics of participants : quantitative -- Measuring the characteristics of participants : qualitative -- Measuring the characteristics of measures -- Measurement scales -- Exploring and explaining topic guides -- Fractions, proportions and rates -- Risk and odds -- Ratios of risks and odds -- Confidence intervals for means, proportions, and medians -- Confidence intervals for ratios -- Hypothesis testing -- Measuring association -- Measuring agreement -- Linear regression -- Logistic regression -- Measuring survival -- Systematic review -- Analysing qualitative data -- Results in text and tables -- Results in pictures -- The discussion and conclusions -- References -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Understanding Clinical Papers is a popular and well established introduction to reading clinical papers. It unravels the process of |
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