Understanding clinical papers / David Bowers, Allan House, David Owens, Bridgette Bewick.

Author/creator Bowers, David, 1938-
Other author House, Allan.
Other author Owens, David, 1954-
Other author Bewick, Bridgette.
Format Electronic
EditionThird edition.
Publication InfoChichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
Description1 online resource.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Bowers, David, 1938- author. Understanding clinical papers Third edition. Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013 9781118232828
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013020180
ISBN9781118760284 ( ePub)
ISBN9781118760000 (Adobe PDF)
ISBN9781118760215 (MobiPocket)

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