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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.