Foundations of Clinical Research
Applications to Practice, Third Edition
by
Leslie G. Portney
Mary P. Watkins
Welcome to the online study guide, designed to accompany Foundations of Clinical Research by Leslie Portney and Mary Watkins. This website is a free auxiliary to the textbook where you will find study suggestions, review exercises and useful resources related to each chapter of the text. If the review questions are incorporated into your class, your instructor may request that you e-mail your answers to receive feedback on your responses. To get started, simply select a chapter from the menu bar on the top page or click on one of the chapter titles below.
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Chapter 1: A Concept of Clinical Research
Chapter 2: The Role of Theory in Clinical Research
Chapter 3: Ethical Issues in Clinical Research
Chapter 4: Principles of Measurement
Chapter 5: Reliability of Measurements
Chapter 6: Validity of Measurements
Chapter 7: Asking the Research Question
Chapter 8: Sampling
Chapter 9: Validity in Experimental Design
Chapter 10: Experimental Designs
Chapter 11: Quasi-experimental Designs
Chapter 12: Single-subject Designs
Chapter 13: Exploratory Research: Observational Designs
Chapter 14: Descriptive Research
Chapter 15: Surveys and Questionnaires
Chapter 16: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis
Chapter 17: Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 18: Statistical Inference
Chapter 19: Comparing Two Means: The t-test
Chapter 20: Comparing More that Two Means: Analysis of Variance
Chapter 21: Multiple Comparison Tests
Chapter 22: Nonparametric Tests for Group Comparisons
Chapter 23: Correlation
Chapter 24: Regression
Chapter 25: Measures of Association for Categorical Variables: Chi-Square
Chapter 26: Statistical Measures of Reliability
Chapter 27: Statistical Measures of Validity
Chapter 28: Epidemiology: Measures of Risk
Chapter 29: Multivariate Analysis
Chapter 30: Data Management
Chapter 31: Searching the Literature
Chapter 32: Writing a Research Proposal
Chapter 33: Reporting the Results of Clinical Research
Chapter 34: Evaluating Research Reports