This book is an essential guide on how to conduct human medical research
with a focus on the fundamental concepts of contemporary biostatistics
and epidemiology. It provides an overview of all necessary steps: from
setting up research, analyzing collected data and publishing results as
a scientific paper and also in finding the appropriate audience for a
completed study. This comprehensive but compact book covers the writing
of research proposals, choosing research designs, describing collected
data, and understanding various techniques of inferential statistics. It
is written from an applied point-of-view: two studies are used as
example, which guide the reader through all steps, focusing on the
interpretation of the results using SPSS (Statistical Package for the
Social Sciences) output.
A Quick Guide on How to Conduct Medical Research is not only an
indispensable resource for PhD students, researchers as well as
physicians performing their own research, but also for any readers of
medical research who would like a deeper understanding of scientific
publications. It can also be used in educational programs in the school
of medicine, health sciences, human movement sciences, medical biology
and paramedical schools.