Curtis L Meinert

Clinical Trials

Design, Conduct and Analysis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The classic, definitive guide to the design, conduct, and analysis of randomized clinical trials.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 268mm x 192mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1419g
• ISBN-13: 9780195387889
• ISBN-10: 0195387880
• Artikelnr.: 33722454

Autorenporträt

Curtis L. Meinert, PhD, is a Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was founder of the Center for Clinical Trials and served as its director through September 2005. He was a founding member of the Society for Clinical Trials and was Editor of Controlled Clinical Trials from its inception in 1980 through 1993.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part 1: Introduction
* 1. Introduction
* 2. The language of clinical trials
* 3. Types and classes of trials
* 4. The state and nature of trials
* 5. The activities of clinical trials
* 6. Coordinating and other resource centers in multicenter trials
* 7. Multi-study networks
* 8. Ethical principles and imperatives in clinical trials
* 9. Objectivity versus competency in clinical trials
* Part 2: Design principles and practices
* 10. Fundamentals of controlled clinical trials
* 11. Bias
* 12. Bias control
* 13. Variance control
* 14. The study treatments
* 15. Outcome measures
* 16. Sample size and power estimates
* 17. Randomization
* 18. Treatment masking
* 19. The study plan
* 20. Data collection considerations
* Part 3: Execution
* 21. Data collection forms
* 22. Start-up and maintenance procedures
* 23. Participant recruitment and enrollment
* 24. Patient followup, close out, and post trial followup
* 25. Midcourse changes and coping strategies
* 26. Adverse events (AEs)
* 27. Quality assurance
* Part 4: Data analysis
* 28. Basic data analysis and counting principles for primary results
publications
* 29. Study datasets
* 30. Basic data analysis procedures
* 31. Questions concerning the design, analysis, and interpretation of
clinical trials
* 32. Treatment effects monitoring
* 33. Issues in treatment effects monitoring
* 34. Subgroup analyses
* Part 5: Organization and management
* 35. Funding
* 36. Organizational design and structure
* 37. Study governance
* 38. Study organizational structures and meetings
* 39. Regulations, requirements, policies, and guidelines
* Part 6: Publication
* 40. The publication imperative
* 41. Presentation, publication, information, and data access policies
* 42. Preparation of study publications
* 43. Document and report production
* 44. Reading reports of trials
* Part 7: Miscellaneous
* 45. Scientific integrity
* 46. Transgressions of trialists
* 47. Homogeneity versus heterogeneity in trials
* 48. Meta-analysis
* 49. The University Group Diabetes Program (UGDP)
* 50. Training trialists
* 51. Comparative effectiveness research (CER) and clinical trials
* 52. Readings and reference materials
* Part 8: Appendices
* A. Glossary of definitions
* B. Terminology usage and recommendations
* C. Medical research codes of ethics
* D. Teaching questions and answers
* E. Aids for trialists
* F. Data items and forms illustrations
* G. Randomization illustrations
* H. Activities by stage of trial
* I . Sketches of trials: Year 2006 publications in NEJM, JAMA, Br Med
J, and Lancet
* J. Sample study documents
* K. User datasets
* L. Abbreviations
* References
* Index