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- ISBN-10 : 0131716409
- ISBN-13 : 978-0131716407
- Author: Leslie Gross Portney (Author), Mary P. Watkins (Author)
Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice, 3/e provides the foundations that are necessary for finding and interpreting research evidence across all healthcare professions. This book has been revised to reflect the most current changes in the field of clinical research in rehabilitation and medicine, including the growing emphasis on evidence-based practice (EBP) that has become central to all of health care and the new vocabulary that is being integrated into research and practice across disciplines. There is also a new chapter on systematic reviews and meta-analysis as well as expanded content related to clinical decision making, including likelihood ratios, pretest and posttest probabilities, minimally important change and number needed to treat.
Table contents:
I. Foundations of Clinical Research
1. A Concept of Clinical Research
2. The Role of Theory in Clinical Research
3. Ethical Issues in Clinical Research
II. Concepts of Measurement
4. Principles of Measurement
5. Reliability of Measurements
6. Validity of Measurments
III. Designing Clinical Research
7. Asking the Research Question
8. Sampling
9. Validity in Experimental Design
10. Experimental Designs
11. Quasi-Experimental Designs
12. Single-Subject Designs
13. Exploratory Research: Observational Designs
14. Descriptive Research 15. Surveys and Questionnaires
16. Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis IV. Data Analysis
17. Descriptive Statistics
18. Statistical Inference
19. Comparing Two Means: The t-Test
20. Comparing More Than Two Means: Analysis of Variance
21. Multiple Comparison Tests
22. Nonparametric Tests for Group Comparisons
23. Correlation
24. Regression
25. Measures of Association for Categorical Variables: Chi-Square
26. Statistical Measures of Reliability
27. Statistical Measures of Validity
28. Epidemiology: Measuring Risk
29. Multivariate Analysis
30. Data Management
V. Communication
31. Searching the Literature
32. Writing a Research Proposal
33. Reporting the Results of Clinical Research
34. Evaluating Research Reports Appendices Glossary Index
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