Clinical Research for Surgeons

Designed as a practical aid in planning and conducting clinical research, this new book covers the basic principles of evidence-based medicine and surgery, and these principles are applied to the design of research studies. The reader of this book will come to fully understand concepts such as case- [...]
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Designed as a practical aid in planning and conducting clinical research, this new book covers the basic principles of evidence-based medicine and surgery, and these principles are applied to the design of research studies. The reader of this book will come to fully understand concepts such as case-control study, prospective cohort study, randomized trial, reliability study, and many more. Discussions of the critical appraisal of published clinical studies are provided, allowing the reader to hone his or her ability to evaluate the quality of such studies with respect to measuring outcomes.