Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice

Draw upon the foundations necessary for finding and interpreting research evidence across all healthcare professions. Revised to reflect the most current changes in the field of clinical research in rehabilitation and medicine, you’ll find a growing emphasis on evidence-based practice (EBP) as well as new vocabulary that is being integrated into research and practice across disciplines.

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 II. Concepts of Measurement 4. Principles of Measurement 5. Reliability of Measurements 6. Validity of Measurments 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-Analysis IV. Data Analysis 17. Descriptive Statistics 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: Measuring Risk 29. Multivariate Analysis 30. Data Management V. Communication 31. Searching the Literature 32. Writing a Research Proposal 33. Reporting the Results of Clinical Research 34. Evaluating Research Reports Appendices Glossary Index