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Understanding clinical papers / David Bowers, Allan House, David Owens, Bridgette Bewick.
Understanding Clinical Papers is a popular and well established introduction to reading clinical papers. It unravels the process of evidence-based practice, using real papers to illustrate how to understand and evaluate published research, and provides clear explanations of important research-related topics.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781118232828
- ISBN: 1118232828
- ISBN: 111876000X
- ISBN: 9781118760000
- Physical Description: ix, 247 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: Third edition.
- Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Some preliminaries -- The abstract and introduction -- The aims and objectives -- Descriptive studies : qualitative -- Descriptive studies : quantitative -- Analytic studies -- Intervention studies -- Mixed methods studies -- The research setting -- Populations and samples in quantitative research -- The sample in qualitative research -- Identifying and defining cases -- Controls and comparisons -- Identifying the characteristics of quantitative data -- Summarising the characteristics of quantitative data -- Identifying and summarising the characteristics of qualitative data -- Measuring the characteristics of participants : quantitative -- Measuring the characteristics of participants : qualitative -- Measuring the characteristics of measures -- Measurement scales -- Exploring and explaining topic guides -- Fractions, proportions and rates -- Risk and odds -- Ratios of risks and odds -- Confidence intervals for means, proportions, and medians -- Confidence intervals for ratios -- Hypothesis testing -- Measuring association -- Measuring agreement -- Linear regression -- Logistic regression -- Measuring survival -- Systematic review -- Analysing qualitative data -- Results in text and tables -- Results in pictures -- The discussion and conclusions -- References -- Index. |
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| Subject: | Medical literature. Medical writing. Journalism, Medical. Journalism, Medical. Medical literature. Medical writing. Journalism, Medical. Reading. Writing. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at College of the Rockies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Cranbrook Campus | R 118.6 .B69 2014 (Text) | 31111000151108 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |
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