Medical Statistics and Methodology

Neurologic Outcomes of Surgery and Anesthesia fills a gap in perioperative medicine literature and provides a concise yet thorough overview of adverse outcomes involving the brain, spine, and peripheral nerves. Rather than being organized by type of operation, each chapter is devoted to a specific adverse outcome, and each is reviewed in an easy-to-follow format that includes an introduction to the clinical problem, a section on incidence, prevalence, and outcomes, an assessment of risk factors, discussions of preventive strategies, treatment, and current recommendations.Less

This handbook is written for clinical and healthcare research students as well as graduates who wish to work in clinical and healthcare research. It provides simple instructions on the legislative requirements as well as the practical requirements of commissioning, conducting, analysing and reporting research for those in clinical or healthcare practice, and education/training. The handbook outlines the underpinning concepts governing each topic. It takes the researcher through the steps from general good clinical practice in healthcare research, through the process and management of research in a practical yet evidence based manner. There is wide coverage of topics pertaining to several areas of healthcare research, not commonly found in a single text.Less

Investigation of patients with suspected disease has become highly complex, with an ever-expanding plethora of investigative techniques available to clinicians. This handbook details the techniques used in modern clinical medicine, across all the major specialties. Each chapter outlines the range of investigations available, along with preparation of the patient, complications, and interpretation of results. The handbook also includes a symptom-focused approach initially, which helps clinicians determine which system may be involved before, then reviews the specialty-specific sections of the book.Less

Written in an easily accessible style, the Oxford Handbook of Medical Statistics provides doctors and medical students with a concise and thorough account of this often difficult subject. It promotes understanding and interpretation of statistical methods across a wide range of topics, from study design and sample size considerations, through t- and chi-squared tests, to complex multifactorial analyses, using examples from published research.Less

With 136 chapters spread across 8 sections, this resource offers a thorough grounding in issues ranging from medicines regulation to clinical trial design and data management. It is a useful revision aid for exams as well as a starting point for areas of pharmaceutical medicine adjacent to a current role. It is a guiding hand in difficult situations as well as a rapid-access resource to the latest recommendations and guidelines.Less

Presenting Medical Statistics from Proposal to Publication (second edition) aims to show readers how to conduct a wide range of statistical analyses from sample size calculations through to multifactorial regressions that are needed in the research process. The second edition of ‘Presenting’ has been revised and updated and now includes Stata, SAS, SPSS, and R. The book shows how to interpret each computer output and illustrates how to present the results and accompanying text in a format suitable for a peer-reviewed journal article or research report. All analyses are illustrated using real data and all programming code, outputs, and datasets used in the book are available on a website for readers to freely download and use. ‘Presenting’ includes practical information and helpful tips for software, all statistical methods used, and the research process. It is written by three experienced biostatisticians, Janet Peacock, Sally Kerry, and Ray Balise from the UK and the USA, and is born out of their extensive experience conducting collaborative medical research, teaching medical students, physicians, and other health professionals, and providing researchers with advice.Less