Description
Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice, 3/e serves as a comprehensive reference for a variety of research situations. This edition reflects the contemporary focus on evidence-based practice in health care, and the essential concepts for understanding analysis and research design. Expanded topics include measures of diagnostic accuracy, statistical estimates of validity and reliability, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, search strategies and critical appraisal of literature for clinical decision making and development of research. Written for those in the health professions, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, nursing, and exercise physiology, this text will be useful to developing clinicians, practitioners, graduate students and researchers.
Table of Contents
Part I: Foundations of Clinical Research
1. A Concept of Clinical Research
2. The Role of Theory in Clinical Research
3. Ethical Issues in Clinical Research
Part II: Concepts of Measurement
4. Principles of Measurement
5. Reliability of Measurements
6. Validity of Measurements
Part III: Designing Clinical Research
7. Asking the Research Question
8. Sampling
9. Validity in Experimental Design
10. Experimental Designs
11. Quasi-Experimental Designs
12. Single Subject Designs
13. Exploratory Research: Observational Designs
14. Descriptive Research
15. Surveys and Questionnaires
16. Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
Part IV: Data Analysis
17. Descriptive Analysis
18. Statistical Inference
19. Comparing Two Means: The t-test
20. Comparing More Than Two Means: Analysis of Variance
21. Multiple Comparison Tests
22. Nonparametric Tests for Group Comparisons
23. Correlation
24. Regression
25. Measures of Association for Categorical Variables: Chi-Square
26. Statistical Measures of Reliability
27. Statistical Measures of Validity
28. Epidemiology: Measures of Risk
29. Multivariate Analysis
30. Data Management
Part V: Communication
31. Writing a Research Proposal
32. Reporting the Results of Clinical Research
33. Evaluating Research Reports
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