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Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice, 3/E
Leslie Gross Portney, MGH Institute of Health Professions
Mary P. Watkins, MGH Institute of Health Professions

ISBN-10: 0131716409
ISBN-13: 9780131716407

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Cloth; 912 pp
Published: 12/31/2007

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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.

    • Updated examples to provide students with a relevant context for understanding designs and analyses
    • Conceptual description of analytic procedures used in evidence-based practice as well as tables to demonstrate simple calculations
    • Algorithm for choosing a statistical procedure based on a study’s design
    • Diagrams that aim to assist in a student’s understanding of experimental and observational design variations
    • Guidelines for critical appraisal of various types of studies
    • Companion website
    • Comprehensive glossary

Added:

  • Stronger Emphasis on evidence-based practice, including a focus on sensitivity/specificity and likelihood ratios, number needed to treat, measuring clinically meaningful change
  • More figures to help with the conceptual understanding principles

Deleted:

  • Information on program evaluation

New Chapters:
  • Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
  • Quasi-Experimental Designs
  • Statistical Measures of Validity
  • Epidemiology: Measures of Risk
  • Searching the Literature

All chapters have updated examples from the literature to support explanations of descriptions of designs, research approaches and statistical analyses.

 

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

    For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, nursing, exercise physiology, medicine and public health.

    This text serves as a comprehensive reference for a variety of research situations. It is written for students and practitioners in the health professions as they become critical consumers of published research, and for those who are actively engaged in clinical research activities. This edition reflects the popular approaches to analysis and design, and addresses the focus of health-care related research through the 1990s and into the 21st century.

  • 0838526950Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice, 2/E
    Portney & Watkins
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    ISBN-10: 0838526950 | ISBN-13: 9780838526958
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Dr. Leslie Portney is the Director of Graduate Programs in Physical Therapy for the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Leslie graduated with a Doctor of Physical Therapy from the MGH Institute, a PhD in Gerontology from Boston University, a Master of Science in Physical Therapy from Medical College of Virginia, and a Certificate in Physical Therapy from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a licensed physical therapist in both New York and Massachusetts.  Leslie has authored a multitude of books and has contributed to a variety of different publications including the PT—Magazine of Physical Therapy.  Leslie is currently a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and on the Task Force on Uniform Outcomes Assessment.

 

Dr. Mary Watkins is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Graduate Programs in Physical Therapy for the MGH Institute of Health Professions.  Mary graduated with a Doctor of Physical Therapy from the MGH Institute and a Master of Science from Boston University.  Mary is a licensed physical therapist in Massachusetts, a member of the American Physical Therapy Association. Mary has authored many book chapters and contributed to a number of different publications including the Journal of Hand Therapy, the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation and the Journal of Orthopedic & Sports Physical Therapy. 

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    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.

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