"Understanding Papers in Clinical Journals" vermittelt
Ärzten, Schwestern und medizinischem Fachpersonal das nötige
Know-How, um die in medizinischen Studien verwendeten Methoden
umfassend zu verstehen und die Angemessenheit der gezogenen
Schlußfolgerungen beurteilen zu können. Dies ist insbesondere aus
zwei Gründen von Bedeutung: Einerseits wird die kritische Bewertung
von Ergebnissen verstärkt in die Klinikpraxis umgesetzt und
andererseits nimmt die fachliche Komplexität von Studien, die in
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Hand, um Fachartikel effektiv zu nutzen, sie kritisch zu bewerten
und die Ergebnisse aus den Artikeln in die Praxis umzusetzen.
Now in its second edition this book helps to unravel the process of
evidence-based practice which requires clinicians to evaluate and
collate information from the journals they read. The book uses
actual papers to illustrate how to understand and evaluate
published research, but goes beyond this to provide an explanation
of a range of important research-related topics.This second edition
has been markedly improved and extended, not only with the
inclusion of a considerable amount of completely new material
(including a chapter on measurement scales), but with a major
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addition, many of the examples taken from the literature have been
updated to maintain the book's contemporary focus."The
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interesting way. The language is clear and readable. It is
well-structured, logically mirroring the sequence of good quality
papers. The examples from studies are well chosen, interesting and
at times entertaining in themselves. References are informative and
help to contextualise the information. This is a most useful book
which I would recommend in particular for students of all
disciplines and practitioners involved in research activity."
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"What strikes the reader ... straight away is clarity ... promises to become a recommended text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses." - Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, September 2006
"Reading it will definitely enhance one's ability to distinguish the robust from the not so robust. Worthy of space in a departmental library." (UROLOGY NEWS, July 2010) "...an excellent basis for all who intend to write scientific texts as well as those reading, evaluating, and trying to understand the results..." (Clinical Chemistry, May 2007) "What makes this book unique is that each point presented is illustrated with excerpts from actual papers, often three or four per chapter...this is a very effective teaching device." (Journal of the American Medical Association, December 26, 2006) "This should be quite useful to the intended audience." (Doody's Health Services) "What strikes the reader ... straight away is clarity ... promises to become a recommended text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses." (Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, September 2006)
"This should be quite useful to the intended audience." (Doody's Health Services) "What strikes the reader ... straight away is clarity ... promises to become a recommended text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses." (Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, September 2006)
David Bowers, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UKBest selling author of Statistics from Scratch and Medical Statistics from Scratch.
Allan House, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK
David Owens, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK
Inhaltsangabe
Preface to the First Edition.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Acknowledgements.
PART I: SETTING THE SCENE: WHO DID WHAT, AND WHY.
1. Some Preliminaries.
2. The Abstract and Introduction.
3. The Objectives.
PART II: DESIGN MATTERS: WHAT TYPE OF STUDY ARE YOU READING ABOUT?.
4. Descriptive Studies.
5. Analytic Studies.
6. Intervention Studies.
PART III: THE CAST: FINDING OUT ABOUT THE SUBJECTS OF THE RESEARCH.
7. The Research Setting.
8. Populations and Samples.
9. Identifying and Defining Cases.
10. Controls and Comparisons.
PART IV: ESTABLISHING THE FACTS: STARTING WITH BASIC OBSERVATIONS.
11. Identifying the Characteristics of Data.
12. Summarizing the Characteristics of Data.
13. Measuring the Characteristics of Subjects.
14. Measuring the Characteristics of Measures.
15. Measurement Scales.
PART V ESTABLISHING MORE OF THE FACTS: SOME COMMON WAYS OF DESCRIBING RESULTS.
16. Fractions, Proportions and Rates.
17. Risk and Odds.
18. Ratios of Risk and Odds.
PART VI ANALYSING THE DATA: ESTIMATION AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING.
19. Confidence Intervals for Means, Proportions, and Medians.
20. Confidence Intervals for Ratios.
21. Testing Hypotheses - the p-Value.
PART VII ANALYSING THE DATA: MULTIVARIABLE METHODS.
22. Measuring Association.
23. Measuring Agreement.
24. The Linear Regression Model.
25. The Logistic Regression Model.
26. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
27. Measuring Survival.
PART VIII READING BETWEEN THE LINES: HOW AUTHORS USE TEXT, TABLES AND PICTURES TO TELL YOU WHAT THEY'VE DONE.
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