TY - BOOK AU - Portney,Leslie Gross AU - Watkins,Mary P. TI - Foundations of clinical research: applications to practice SN - 9780803646575 AV - R 850 .P837 2015 U1 - 610.72/4 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Pearson/Prentice Hall KW - Medicine KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Clinical medicine N1 - Includes appendices, bibliographical references and index; Concept of clinical research -- The role of theory in clinical resarch -- Ethical issues in clinical research -- Principles of measurement -- Reliability of measurements -- Validity of measurements -- Asking the research question -- Sampling -- Validity in experimental design -- Experimental designs -- Quasi-experimental designs -- Single-subject designs -- Exploratory research: observational designs -- Descriptive research -- Surveys and questionnaires -- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis -- Descriptive statistics -- Statistical inference -- Comparing two means: the t-test -- Comparing more than two means: analysis of variance -- Multiple comparison tests -- Nonparametric tests for group comparisons -- Correlations -- Regression -- Measures of association for categorical variables: Chi-Square -- Statistical measures of reliability -- Statistical measures of validity -- Epidemiology: measuring risk -- Multivariate analysis -- Data management -- Searching the literature -- Writing a research proposal -- Reporting the results of clinical research -- Evaluating research reports -- Appendices -- Statistical tables -- Relating the research question to the choice of statistical test -- Power and sample size -- Transformation of data -- Sample informed consent form; research; refooah; bri'oot; schoolofmedicine; akhyot; tehzoonah; rohkeahkh; Koakh; rentgenologie; chamtzan UR - https://library.feu-nrmf.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=1544ee73b8f813683f6221c6cd81eba3 ER -