by Stephen B Hulley, Steven R Cummings, Warren S Browner, Deborah G Grady, Thomas B Newman

Designing Clinical Research has been extensively revised and continues to set the standard as a practical guide for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals involved in all forms of clinical, translational, and public health research. It presents advanced epidemiologic concepts in a reader-friendly way, and suggests common sense approaches to the challenging judgments involved in designing, funding, and implementing.

New to this edition:

• Expanded and updated content in every chapter, with new material on: • non-inferiority trials for comparative effectiveness research • incidence-density case-control studies • confounding and effect modification • diagnostic test studies to inform prediction rules • ethical aspects of whole genome sequencing • automated data management approaches • new NIH grant-writing requirements
• Color format, and Electronic access, powered by Inkling™ as a free companion to the text • viewable through your browser or as a download to tablet or smartphone • the complete text with optimized navigation • note-sharing, highlighting and bookmarking capability • cross-linking of references and content • rapid search options linked to the new glossary

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