TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowers,David
TI  - Understanding clinical papers
SN  - 9781118760000 (ebook)
AV  - R118.6 .B69 2013eb
U1  - 610.72/4 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, UK
PB  - John Wiley & Sons Inc.
KW  - Medical literature
KW  - Medical statistics
KW  - Medical writing
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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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