Understanding clinical papers
By: David Bowers, Allan House, David Owens.
Contributors: House, Allan.; Owens, David, Dr.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chichester; Hoboken
Language: eng
Subjects: Medical literature; Medical writing; Journalism, Medical; Journalism, Medical; Reading; Writing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The abstract and introduction; title: The objectives; title: Descriptive studies; title: Analytic studies; title: Intervention studies; title: The research setting; title: Populations and samples; title: Identifying and defining cases; title: Controls and comparisons; title: Identifying the characteristics of data; title: Summarising the characteristics of data; title: Measuring the characteristics of subjects; title: Measuring the characteristics of measures; title: Measuring scales; title: Fractions, proportions and rates; title: Risk and odds; title: Ratios of risks and odds; title: Confidence intervals for means, proportions, medians and their differences; title: Confidence intervals for ratios; title: Testing hypotheses-the P-value; title: Measuring association; title: Measuring agreement; title: The linear regression model; title: The logistic regression model; title: Systematic review and meta-analysis; title: Measuring survival and the Cox regression model; title: Results in text and tables; title: Results in pictures; title: The discussion and the conclusions.