Designing Clinical Research

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. New to this edition: Expanded and updated content in every chapter with new material on: non-inferiority trials for comparative effectiveness research incidence-density case-control studies confounding and effect modification diagnostic test studies to inform prediction rules ethical aspects of whole genome sequencing automated data management approaches new NIH grant-writing requirements Color format and Electronic access powered by Inkling as a free companion to the text viewable through your browser or as a download to tablet or smartphone the complete text with optimized navigation note-sharing highlighting and bookmarking capability cross-linking of references and content rapid search options linked to the new glossary