Abc of Research Methodology and Applied Biostatistics (Paperback)

Table of Contents
* Introduction
* What is research?
* Why do we do research?
* Choosing a topic for research
* Types of Research Studies
* Case control studies
* Cohort studies
* Cross sectional studies
* Randomized controlled trial
* Large simple clinical trials
* Descriptive studies
* Diagnostic tests
* Meta-analysis
* Multicentric trials
* New drug development ? Phase I to IV studies
* Planning and Design of a Study
* Hypothesis testing
* Study subjects or participants and recruitment, inclusion, exclusion criteria
* Statistical errors
* Power of a study
* Sample size calculations
* Interventions
* Bias and confounders
* End points
* Follow up
* Data collection and data management
* Statistical evaluation of data
* Funding
* Ethics in Research
* Evolution of ethics
* Participants? rights
* Ethics committees
* Ethics committee approval
* Applied Biostatistics
* Indispensability of statistics
* How much statistics does a clinician need to know?
* Population, sample and sample size
* Probability and odds
* Mean, median, mode
* Normal distribution
* Standard deviation, variance and standard error of mean
* Percentiles and quartiles
* P value
* Confidence intervals
* Measures of association?Association between two events, relative risk, risk ratio and odds ratio
* Risk measurements
* Correlation and correlation coefficient
* Regression analysis
* Survival analysis
* Choosing an appropriate statistical test
* Role of biostatistician
* Submitting a Paper for Publication
* Choosing the journal
* Submitting a research paper for publication
* The anatomy or structure of a scientific paper
* Submission of rejected paper to another journal
* Additional points
* Writing a case report
* Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
* Importance of EBM
* Sources of evidence
* Evidence of efficiency as well as of safety
* Science of reading a journal and evaluating evidence
* Levels of evidence
* Presenting Papers at Meetings and Conferences
* Misdeeds and Misconduct in Research and Publication
* Misdeeds and misconduct
* Prevention of misconduct
* Registry of Clinical Trials
* Registry
* Registration of a study
* Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
* Historical Glimpses of Research in Medicine
* Evolution of research methods
* Evolution of ethics in research
* Abbreviations
* Demystification of Technical Jargon
* Bibliography
* Index