It's Great! Oops, No It Isn't Why Clinical Research Can't Guarantee The Right Medical Answers. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2009. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8907-7 |
Table of Contents:
- Medical Research Explained
- Medical Research - Searching for Answers
- The Case-Control Method - Looking Backwards
- The Cohort Study - Watchful Waiting
- The Clinical Trial -The Gold Standard
- Comparing the Methods - Qualitative Differences
- Understanding the Clinical Trial
- The Protocol - The Guiding Light
- The Control Group - Leveling the Playing Field
- Measurements - They'ever Exact
- Bias Control - A Closer Look at Blinding and Randomization
- Utility - Are Clinical Trial Results Useful?
- Research Discrimination - Inadequately Tested Populations
- Seven Deadly Flaws - The Clinical Trials' Achilles' Heel
- Tools of the Trade
- Statistics - Was the Finding Significant?
- Analysis Issues - A Lot of Choices
- Meta Analysis - An Alternative to Large Trials
- The Real World
- Research Results That Clashed - What's the Right Answer?
- Hormone Replacement Therapy - The Silver Bullet That Misfired
- Publishing - Getting the Word Out to Doctors
- The Public Forum - Sharing the News with the Public
- Product Development - Getting Discoveries to the Market
- Medical Innovations - Regulators, Resources and Results
- Science and Politics - A Troubling Mixture
- Research Misconduct - Irresistible Temptation
- Postmarketing Surveillance - An Imperfect System
- Regulatory Reform - Changes Needed
- Journey's End - A Call for Action.