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MEDICINE
Wolters Kluwer
89
PUBLIC HEALTH
Designing Clinical
Research
Fourth Edition
Stephen B. Hulley, MD,
MPH
Chairman, Dept.
of Epidemiology &
Biostatistics, UCSF
Steven R. Cummings,
MD
Warren S. Browner, MD,
MPH
Deborah G. Grady, MD,
MPH
Thomas B. Newman,
MD, MPH
July 2013 / Softbound / 7 x 10
Approx. 378 pp. / Approx. 42 Illus. / Approx. 59
Tables
978-1-60831-804-9
DESCRIPTION
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.
FEATURES
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4-color design
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New approaches to sample size estimation,
keeping it simple while covering more design
options
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Solution site that includes fully searchable text
and sample-sizing calculators
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Examples and ideas on what’s new in clinical
research
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Exercises that highlight major clinical research
issues
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Treatment of clinical trial design and
implementation
Clinical
Epidemiology:
The Essentials
Fifth Edition
Robert Fletcher, MD,
MSc
Adjunct Professor,
Department of
AmbulatoryCare and
Prevention, Harvard
Medical School, Boston,
MA
SuzanneW. Fletcher,
MD, MSc
Adjunct Professor,
Department of AmbulatoryCare and Prevention, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA
December 2012 / Softbound / 7 x 10
Approx. 272 pp. / Approx. 101 Illus. / Approx. 30
Tables
978-1-4511-4447-5
DESCRIPTION
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.
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NEW! Revised, full-color art program
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“Key Words” lists beginning each chapter to tip
the reader to the important concepts that must
be mastered in that chapter
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End of chapter review questions with answers
to help students test their understanding of the
material
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“Example” feature for clarifying clarify important
concepts by discussing actual studies taken
directly from clinical literature