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Clinical Research for Surgeons

Clinical Research for Surgeons

9783131439314
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Clinical Research for Surgeons is a practical guide for understanding, planning, conducting, and evaluating surgical research. It covers the principles of evidence-based surgery and applies these principles to the design of suitable research studies. The reader will come to fully understand important concepts such as case-control study, prospective cohort study, randomized trial, and reliability study. The book provides valuable discussions of the critical appraisal of published clinical studies, allowing the reader to learn how to evaluate the quality of such studies with respect to measuring outcomes and to make effective use of all types of evidence in patient care.

Highlights::

  • Insights from experienced surgeons and veteran researchers
  • Easy-to-reference text boxes with Key Concepts, Jargon Simplified, and Examples from the Literature
  • Coverage of both open and minimally-invasive surgical procedures
  • 50 illustrations demonstrating key points

This book is a valuable reference for clinicians and residents in a range of disciplines, including general surgery, orthopedic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, urology, neurosurgery, otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, interventional radiology, cardiac surgery.

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Georg Thieme
52657
9783131439314
9783131439314

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Publication date
2009
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
328
Dimensions (mm)
194.95 x 269.88
Weight (g)
907
  • Part I Why We Need Clinical Research
    1 Historical Perspective of Clinical Research
    2 Evidence-Based Surgery Defined
    3 Myths and Misconceptions about Evidence-Based Medicine
    4 Becoming and Evidence-Based Surgeon
    Part II Principles of Clinical Research
    5 Various Research Design Classifications
    6 Hierarchy of Research Studies: From Case Series to Meta-Analyses
    7 Randomized and Nonrandomized Studies
    Part IIA Understanding Research Study Design
    8 The Clinical Case Series
    9 The Case&ndsah;Control Study
    10 The Prospective Cohort Study
    11 The Randomized Trial
    12 Meta-Analyses
    13 Economic Analysis
    14 The Diagnostic Study
    15 The Reliability Study
    Part IIB Understanding Outcomes Measurement
    16 The Classification of Outcomes
    17 What Makes an Outcome Measure Useful
    18 Common Generic Outcome Scales for Surgeons
    19 Common Disease-Specific Outcome Scales for Surgeons
    Part IIC Understanding Treatment Effects
    20 Common Ways to Present Treatment Effects
    21 The Confidence Interval Defined
    22 The P Value Defined
    23 Errors in Hypothesis Testing
    24 Clinical versus Statistical Significance
    Part III Practice of Clinical Research
    Part IIIA Planning a Research Study
    25 The Requirements of a Clinical Research Proposal
    26 The Identification of a Good Research Question
    27 How to Conduct a Comprehensive Literature Search
    28 Guide to Planning a Randomized Trial
    29 Guide to Planning a Nonrandomized Study
    30 Study Sample Size
    31 How to Budget for a Research Study
    32 Research Ethics, Review Boards, and Consent Forms
    33 Regulatory Issues in the Evaluation of a New Device or Drug
    34 Strategies in Research Funding
    Part IIIB Conducting a Research Study
    35 The Roles of the Research Team
    36 The Role of a Central Methods Center
    37 The Role of a Data Monitoring Committee
    38 The Need for Separate Adjudication of Outcomes
    39 Data Management
    40 Study Case Report Forms
    41 The Study Manual of Operations
    Part IIIC Practical Guide to Statistical Analysis
    42 Review of Basic Statistical Principles
    43 Statistical Means and Proportions
    44 Regression Analysis
    45 Analysis of Variance
    46 Correlation Defined

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