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Fundamentals of Clinical Research : Bridging Medicine, Statistics and Operations / by Antonella Bacchieri, Giovanni Cioppa
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Original language: Italian Series: Statistics for Biology and Health | SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Milano : Springer Milan, 2007Description: Online-Ressource (XXV, 343 p, online resource)ISBN:- 9788847004924
- 502.85
- 610.72
- 610
- 610
- R858-859.7
- RC
- WB 25
Contents:
Summary: The scope of clinical research is to evaluate the effect of a treatment on the evolution of a disease in humans. The treatment can be pharmacological, surgical, psychological/behavioral or organizational/logistic. This book covers this area, ending with a description of the drug development process and the phases of clinical developmentPPN: PPN: 1646655060Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-SMI | ZDB-2-SME
Front Matter; 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 MeasurementsThe Drug Development Process and the Phases of Clinical Research; Back Matter;
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