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Author(s): Nigel Bruce, Daniel Pope, Debbi Stanistreet
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ISBN 10: 0470022760 
ISBN 13: 9780470022764
Author: Nigel Bruce, Daniel Pope, Debbi Stanistreet

Quantitative Research Methods for Health Professionals: A Practical Interactive Course is a superb introduction to epidemiology, biostatistics, and research methodology for the whole health care community. Drawing examples from a wide range of health research, this practical handbook covers important contemporary health research methods such as survival analysis, Cox regression, and meta-analysis, the understanding of which go beyond introductory concepts. The book includes self-assessment exercises throughout to help students explore and reflect on their understanding and a clear distinction is made between a) knowledge and concepts that all students should ensure they understand and b) those that can be pursued by students who wish to do so. The authors incorporate a program of practical exercises in SPSS using a prepared data set that helps to consolidate the theory and develop skills and confidence in data handling, analysis and interpretation.

Quantitative Methods for Health Research A Practical Interactive Guide to Epidemiology and Statistics 1st Table of contents:

1 Philosophy of Science and Introduction to Epidemiology
Introduction and Learning Objectives
1.1 Approaches to Scientific Research
1.2 Formulating a Research Question
1.3 Rates: Incidence and Prevalence
1.4 Concepts of Prevention
1.5 Answers to Self-Assessment Exercises Section 1.1
2 Routine Data Sources and Descriptive Epidemiology
Introduction and Learning Objectives
2.1 Routine Collection of Health Information
2.2 Descriptive Epidemiology
2.3 Information on the Environment
2.4 Displaying, Describing, and Presenting Data
2.5 Routinely Available Health Data
2.6 Descriptive Epidemiology in Action
2.7 Overview of Epidemiological Study Designs
2.8 Answers to Self-Assessment Exercises
Note
3 Standardisation
Introduction and Learning Objectives
3.1 Health Inequalities in Merseyside
3.2 Indirect Standardisation: Calculation of the Standardised Mortality Ratio (SMR)
3.3 Direct Standardisation
3.4 Standardisation for Factors Other Than Age
3.5 Answers to Self-Assessment Exercises
4 Surveys
Introduction and Learning Objectives
Resource Papers
4.1 Purpose and Context
4.2 Sampling Methods
4.3 The Sampling Frame
4.4 Sampling Error, Confidence Intervals, and Sample Size
4.5 Response
4.6 Measurement
4.7 Data Types and Presentation
4.8 Answers to Self-Assessment Exercises
5 Cohort Studies
Introduction and Learning Objectives
Resource Papers
5.1 Why Do a Cohort Study?
5.2 Obtaining the Sample
5.3 Measurement
5.4 Follow-Up
5.5 Basic Presentation and Analysis of Results
5.6 How Large Should a Cohort Study Be?
5.7 Assessing Whether an Association is Causal
5.8 Simple Linear Regression
5.9 Introduction to Multiple Linear Regression
5.10 Answers to Self-Assessment Exercises
6 Case–Control Studies
Introduction and Learning Objectives
Resource Papers
6.1 Why do a Case–Control Study?
6.2 Key Elements of Study Design
6.3 Basic Unmatched and Matched Analysis
6.4 Sample Size for a Case–Control Study
6.5 Confounding and Logistic Regression
6.6 Answers to Self-Assessment Exercises
7 Intervention Studies
Introduction and Learning Objectives
Resource Papers
7.1 Why Do an Intervention Study?
7.2 Key Elements of Intervention Study Design
7.3 The Analysis of Intervention Studies
7.4 Testing More-Complex Interventions
7.5 Analysis of Intervention Studies Using a Cluster Design
7.6 How Big Should the Intervention Study Be?
7.7 Intervention Study Registration, Management, and Reporting
7.8 Answers to Self-Assessment Exercises
8 Life Tables, Survival Analysis, and Cox Regression
Introduction and Learning Objectives
Resource Papers
8.1 Survival Analysis
8.2 Cox Regression
8.3 Current Life Tables
8.4 Answers to Self-Assessment Exercises
Note
9 Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
Introduction and Learning Objectives
Resource Papers
9.1 The Why and How of Systematic Reviews
9.2 The Methodology of Meta-Analysis
9.3 Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies
9.4 Reporting and Publishing Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
9.5 The Cochrane Collaboration
9.6 Answers to Self-Assessment Exercises
10 Prevention Strategies and Evaluation of Screening
Introduction and Learning Objectives
Resource Papers
10.1 Concepts of Risk
10.2 Strategies of Prevention
10.3 Evaluation of Screening Programmes
10.4 Cohort and Period Effects
10.5 Answers to Self-Assessment Exercises
Note
11 Probability Distributions, Hypothesis Testing, and Bayesian Methods
Introduction and Learning Objectives
Resource Papers
11.1 Probability Distributions
11.2 Data That Do Not Fit a Probability Distribution
11.3 Hypothesis Testing: Summary of Common Parametric and Non-Parametric Methods
11.4 Choosing an Appropriate Hypothesis Test
11.5 Bayesian Methods
11.6 Answers to Self-Assessment Exercises

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