Table of contents for Clinical research methods for surgeons / edited by David F. Penson, John Wei.

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PART 1 BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH
	 1 	Planning the Research	
Eugene Blackstone, MD
	 2 	Ethical Issues in Clinical Research	
David F. Penson, MD, MPH
	 3 	Budget Development and Staffing	
Judith Fine and Peter C. Albertsen, MD
PART 2 RESEARCH DESIGN/STATISTICAL ISSUES
	 4 	Non Randomized Interventional Study Designs (Quasi-Experimental Designs)	
David Axelrod, MD, Rodney Hayward, MD
	 5 	Randomized Clinical Trials of Surgical Procedures	
Michael P. Porter, MD, MS
	 6 	Use Of Observational Databases (Registries) In Research	
Deborah P. Lubeck, PhD 
	 7 	Risk Adjustment	
William G. Henderson, MPH, PhD and Shukri F. Khuri, MD
	 8 	Basic Statistical Methods	
David Etzioni, MD MPH, Nadia Howlader MS, and Ruth Etzioni, PhD
	 9 	Survival Analyses	
Rodney L. Dunn, MS and John T. Wei, MD, MS 
	 10 	Assessing the Performance and Validity of Diagnostic Tests and Screening Programs	
David C. Miller, MD, Rodney L. Dunn, MS, and John T. Wei, MD, MS 
	 11 	Secondary Data Analyses	
Andrew Rosenberg, MD, MaryLou VH Greenfield, MPH, MS, 
and Justin B. Dimick, MD
PART 3 OUTCOME MEASUREMENT
	 12 	Traditional Outcome Measures	
Aruna V. Sarma, PhD, MHA and Julie C. McLaughlin, MPH, MS
	 13	Health-Related Quality of Life	
Mark Litwin, MD, MPH
	 14 - Measuring Patient Satisfaction	
Arvin Koruthu George and Martin G. Sanda, MD
PART 4 SPECIAL TOPICS
	 15 	Quality of Care	
Jessica B. O'Connell, MD and Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS 
	 16 	Cost-Effectiveness Analyses	
Lynn Stothers, MD, MHSc, FRCSC
	 17	Qualitative Research	
Donna L. Berry, PhD, RN, AOCN, PhD, Sally L. Maliski, PhD RN, 
and William J. Ellis, MD
	 18 	Systematic Reviews And Meta-Analyses	
Timothy J. Wilt, MD, MPH and Howard A. Fink, MD, MPH
		Index	

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Medicine -- Research -- Methodology.
Surgery.
Biomedical Research -- methods.
Surgery -- methods.
Research Design.