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Fundamentals of Clinical Research Bridging Medicine, Statistics and Operations /

The scope of clinical research is to evaluate the effect of a treatment on the evolution of a disease in the human species.The treatment can be pharmacological, surgical, psychological/behavioral or organizational/logistic. The disease, intended as an impairment of a state of well-being or a conditi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Bacchieri, Antonella (Autor), Della Cioppa, Giovanni (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:Statistics for Biology and Health,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Viability of Biological Phenomena and Measurement Errors
  • Distinctive Aspects of a Biomedical Study Observational and Experimental Studies
  • Observational Studies
  • Defining the Treatment Effect
  • Probability, Inference and Decision Making
  • The Choice of the Sample
  • The Choice of Treatments
  • Experimental Design: Fallacy of "Before-After" Comparisons in Uncontrolled Studies
  • Experimental Design: the Randomized Blinded Study as an Instrument to Reduce Bias
  • Experimental Designs
  • Study Variants Applicable to More than One Type of Design: Equivalence Studies, Interim Analyses, Adaptive Plans and Repeated Measurements
  • The Drug Development Process and the Phases of Clinical Research.