2015 LWW Medical and Health Professions Education Catalogue

PUBLIC HEALTH

Designing Clinical Research Fourth Edition Stephen B. Hulley, MD, MPH Chairman, Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF Steven R. Cummings, MD Founding Director, San Francisco Coordinating Center; Senior Scientist, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute Warren S. Browner, MD, MPH Chief Executive Officer,

Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials Fifth Edition Robert Fletcher, MD, MSc Adjunct Professor Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Suzanne W. Fletcher, MD, MSc Adjunct Professor, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

California Pacific Medical Center Deborah G. Grady, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, University of California, San Francisco Thomas B. Newman, MD, MPH Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and of Pediatrics; Chief, Division of Clinical Epidemiology

December 2012 / Softbound / 7 x 10 Approx. 272 pp. / Approx. 101 Illus. / Approx. 30 Tables 978-1-4511-4447-5

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July 2013 / Softbound / 7 x 10 Approx. 378 pp. / Approx. 42 Illus. / Approx. 59 Tables 978-1-60831-804-9

FEATURES Now in its Fifth Edition, Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials is a comprehensive, concise, and clinically oriented introduction to the subject of epidemiology. Written by expert educators, this text introduces students to the principles of evidence-based medicine that will help them develop and apply methods of clinical observation in order to form accurate conclusions. The Fifth Edition includes more complete coverage of systematic reviews and knowledge management, as well as other key topics such as abnormality, diagnosis, frequency and risk, prognosis, treatment, prevention, chance, studying cases and cause. f f NEW! Revised, full-color art program f f “Key Words” lists beginning each chapter to tip the reader to the important concepts that must be mastered in that chapter f f End of chapter review questions with answers to help students test their understanding of the material f f “Example” feature for clarifying clarify important concepts by discussing actual studies taken directly from clinical literature

MEDICINE

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FEATURES Designing Clinical Research has been extensively revised and continues to set the standard as a practical guide for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals involved in all forms of clinical, translational, and public health research. It presents advanced epidemiologic concepts in a reader-friendly way, and suggests common sense approaches to the challenging judgments involved in designing, funding, and implementing. f f 4-color design f f New approaches to sample size estimation, keeping it simple while covering more design options f f Solution site that includes fully searchable text and sample-sizing calculators f f Examples and ideas on what’s new in clinical research f f Exercises that highlight major clinical research issues f f Treatment of clinical trial design and implementation

Wolters Kluwer

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