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Designing Clinical Research: An Epidemiologic Approach by Stephen B Hulley, Steven R CummingsWarren S BrownerDeborah G GradyThomas B Newman
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Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (11/1/2006) ISBN: 0781782104 Edition: 3 Paperback: 384 pages Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.9 inches Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews.
Designing Clinical Research sets the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy-to-read, uncomplicated presentation. This edition incorporates current research methodology--including molecular and genetic clinical research--and offers an updated syllabus for conducting a clinical research workshop. Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. The book explains how to choose well-focused research questions and details the steps through all the elements of study design, data collection, quality assurance, and basic grant-writing. All chapters have been thoroughly revised, updated, and made more user-friendly.

Customer Reviews
Better than previous edition I am a declared fan of this book. I teach on how to do research to med students and this book is very straight forward and practical. I believe that this book is a must for physicians that want to do research and have no time to learn everything. It is designed for everyone to pose their research question, select the design (which I believe is the right way to do research)(first 6 chapters) and then read the chapters about the selected design. It has additional chapters about searching funds(seldom included in research books) and ethical issues. My favorite chapters are the first two for beginners with no research experience (research question), the fifth (hypothesis) and the sixth (sample size), and the questionnaire chapter. The questionnaire chapter is a masterpiece, it teaches about difficult subjects in a practical and very easy way for physicians to understand. I have let away most of my books about questionnaires aside with this chapter (for physicians, for research specialties you might go to other books). And in this new edition the data management chapter has included the use of software for data analysis. I hope the Spanish version of this 3rd edition will be available soon.

Ok product I enjoyed the class and this book was pretty helpful, but probably not worth the price.

Very Good This book was good for me, give you the best about clinical research from A to Z, very simple, up to the point

Needed for Class This is a really great book. It is well written and seems easy to follow. IT was required for my Intro to Research class. It will be helpful as well in the development of my capstone/research project for graduaiton.

IT HAS A REFINED ANALYTICAL APPROACH "Designing Clinical Research: An Epidermiologic Approach" did a thorough analysis of various methodologies, which medical scientists could use in everyday research. It, first of all, outlined all the essential steps (used in epidemiological research), before delving into the analysis of each step. Its information is current and versatile. But, certain important issues like research-funding and statistics received less than expected attention. Despite this flaw, I would still recommend this book to scientists. Its pros did exceed its cons by a mile.