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More About This Title Research Methods in Community Medicine- Surveys,Epidemiological Research, Programme,Evaluation, Clinical Trails 6e
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- A simple and systematic guide to the planning and performance of investigations concerned with health and disease and with health care
- Offers researchers help in choosing a topic and to think about shaping objectives and ideas and to link these with the appropriate choice of method
- Fully updated with new sections on the use of the Web and computer programmes freely available in the planning, performance or analysis of studies
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Author of five previous editions of the formerly titled Survey Methods in Community Medicine and Making Sense of Data with OUP.
Z.H. Abramson, Beit Hakerem Community Clinic (Clalit Health Services) and Department of Family Medicine, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem.
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1. First steps
2. Types of investigation
3. Stages of an investigation
4. Formulating the objectives
5. The objectives of evaluative studies
6. The study population
7. Control groups
8. Sampling
9. Selecting cases and controls for case-control studies
10. The variables
11. Defining the variables
12. Definitions of diseases
13. Scales of measurement
14. Composite scales
15. Methods of collecting data
16. Reliability
17. Validity
18. Interviews and self-administered questionnaires
19. Constructing a questionnaire
20. Surveying the opinions of a panel: consensus methods
21. The use of documentary sources
22. Planning the records
23. Planning the handling of data
24. Pretests and other preparations
25. Collecting the data
26. Statistical analysis
27. Interpreting the findings
28. Making sense of associations
29. Application of the study findings
30. Writing a report
31. Rapid epidemiological methods
32. Clinical trials
33. Programme trials
34. Community-oriented primary care
35. Using the Web for health research
Appendix A Community appraisal: a checklist
Appendix B Random numbers
Appendix C Free computer programs
Index