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Clinical Epidemiology: Practice and Methods (Methods in Molecular Biology (1281)) by Patrick S. Parfrey, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada, Brendan J. Barrett, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Focusing on improving the diagnosis, prognosis, and management of human disease, this book takes on the issues of research design, measurement, and evaluation which are critical to clinical epidemiology. This second edition of __Clinical Epidemiology: Practice and Methods__ opens with how best to frame a clinical research question, the ethics associated with doing a research project in humans, and the definition of various biases that occur in clinical research. From there, it continues by examining issues of design, measurement, and analysis associated with various research designs, including determination of risk in longitudinal studies, assessment of therapy in randomized controlled clinical trials, and evaluation of diagnostic tests, and then delves into the more specialized area of clinical genetic research, before concluding with basic methods used in evidence-based decision making including critical appraisal, aggregation of multiple studies using meta-analysis, health technology assessment, clinical practice guidelines, development of health policy, translational research, how to utilize administrative databases, and knowledge translation. Written for the highly successful

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Author
Patrick S. Parfrey, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada, Brendan J. Barrett, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada
Publisher
Springer New York : Imprint : Humana Press
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9781493924271
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Medical, Medicine
Updated
2026-03-24

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