Understanding Clinical Papers

Now in its Second Edition, this book helps to unravel the process of evidence-based practice, which requires clinicians to evaluate and collate information from the journals they read. Understanding Clinical Papers, Second Edition uses actual papers to illustrate how to understand and evaluate published research, but goes beyond this to provide an explanation of a range of important research-related topics.Understanding Clinical Papers, Second Edition:Covers everything necessary to understand a clinical research paperExamples are illustrated and based uniquely on tables, abstracts and exerts from published clinical research papersAmazingly clear, lively, accessible styleThe new edition has been markedly improved and extended, containing, for example, new material on measurement scales, systematic reviews, writing a paper, statistics software and critical appraisal“What strikes the reader... straight away is clarity… promises to become a recommended text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses." JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS“The writing style is amazingly clear and does not require formal course work in biostatistics or epidemiology…We strongly recommend it for beginners and for easy entry into a complex domain and to experts who we think will enjoy it and who will find it useful as they teach, advise and help others.” QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE “What makes this book unique is that each point presented is illustrated with excerpts from actual papers, often three or four per chapter... this is a very effective teaching device." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION“This book should be an essential addition to the personal libraries of all health care workers who need to use articles in journals. In these days of evidence-based medicine, this should apply to all physicians, nurses and other health professionals.” ONCOLOGYUnderstanding Clinical Papers, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for everyone involved directly or indirectly in health care – an ultimate guide for those who read clinical literature.

Medical Books

Bowers, David

House, Allan

Owens, David

Research

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Now in its Second Edition, this book helps to unravel the process of evidence-based practice, which requires clinicians to evaluate and collate information from the journals they read. Understanding Clinical Papers, Second Edition uses actual papers to illustrate how to understand and evaluate published research, but goes beyond this to provide an explanation of a range of important research-related topics. 
Understanding Clinical Papers, Second Edition: <ul>
<li>Covers everything necessary to understand a clinical research paper</li> <li>Examples are illustrated and based uniquely on tables, abstracts and exerts from published clinical research papers</li> <li>Amazingly clear, lively, accessible style</li> <li>The new edition has been markedly improved and extended, containing, for example, new material on measurement scales, systematic reviews, writing a paper, statistics software and critical appraisal</li> </ul>
“What strikes the reader... straight away is clarity… promises to become a recommended text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses." JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS “The writing style is amazingly clear and does not require formal course work in biostatistics or epidemiology…We strongly recommend it for beginners and for easy entry into a complex domain and to experts who we think will enjoy it and who will find it useful as they teach, advise and help others.” QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE “What makes this book unique is that each point presented is illustrated with excerpts from actual papers, often three or four per chapter... this is a very effective teaching device." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION “This book should be an essential addition to the personal libraries of all health care workers who need to use articles in journals. In these days of evidence-based medicine, this should apply to all physicians, nurses and other health professionals.” ONCOLOGY Understanding Clinical Papers, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for everyone involved directly or indirectly in health care – an ultimate guide for those who read clinical literature.

Medicine

wiley

This long awaited second edition of this bestseller continues to provide a comprehensive, user friendly, down-to-earth guide to elementary statistics. The book presents a detailed account of the most important procedures for the analysis of data, from the calculation of simple proportions, to a variety of statistical tests, and the use of regression models for modeling of clinical outcomes. 
The level of mathematics is kept to a minimum to make the material easily accessible to the novice, and a multitude of illustrative cases are included in every chapter, drawn from the current research literature. The new edition has been completely revised and updated and includes new chapters on basic quantitative methods, measuring survival, measurement scales, diagnostic testing, bayesian methods, meta-analysis and systematic reviews. "... After years of trying and failing, this is the only book on statistics that i have managed to read and understand" - Naveed Kirmani, Surgical Registrar, South London Healthcare HHS Trust, UK

Medical Statistics from Scratch: An Introduction for Health Professionals

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Wiley-Interscience

This second edition combines information from the original two books, Statistics from Scratch and Statistics Further from Scratch, to make one, comprehensive, user friendly, down-to-earth guide to elementary statistics. The book presents a detailed account of the most important procedures for the analysis of data, from the calculation of simple proportions, to a variety of statistical tests, and the use of regression models for modeling of clinical outcomes. The level of mathematics is kept to a minimum to make the material easily accessible to the novice, and a multitude of illustrative cases are included in every chapter, drown from the current research literature.

Medical Statistics from Scratch

Emphasis on evidence-based medicine has required clinicians to implement and collate information from clinical journals as part of their everyday work, yet the content of journal articles is often hard to comprehend and the validity of results and conclusions difficult to determine. This title takes a fresh and original approach to teach its readers the basic skills needed to read and understand a clinical paper. 
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<li>Everything explained from the ground up</li> <li>Practical approach with illustrations used for every term</li> <li>Follows sequence of a typical paper</li> <li>Concentrates on most complex areas of a paper</li> </ul>
Understanding Clinical Papers explains all you ever needed to know to comprehend completely all aspects of a typical clinical research paper. It is for everyone involved directly, or indirectly, in health care; an ultimate guide for those who read clinical literature.

This is a down-to-earth, user-friendly guide to elementary statistics, designed specifically to help today?s health care professionals acquire the skills necessary to collect, interpret, describe and present sample data in a clear, unambiguous and focused manner. No previous knowledge?other than simple mathematics?is assumed. Key features include: 
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<li>Practical tips on how to obtain and interpret basic descriptive statistics.</li> <li>Detailed explanation of the crucial distinctions between different types of sample data.</li> <li>Invaluable help in choosing the most appropriate ways of summarising data.</li> <li>Comprehensive coverage of a wide variety of tasks from methods of data collection to the best ways of presenting data.</li> <li>Use of real data in a host of helpful work-through examples and end-of-chapter exercises.</li> <li>A multitude of illustrative cases, in every chapter, drawn from current literature and practice.</li> <li>Detailed and explicit help in using several commonly available computer packages for data analysis including SPSS, MINITAB, and EPI.</li> <li>Liberal use of explanatory graphs.</li> </ul> Ideal for both students and professionals, in health care and medicine, who are approaching the subject of statistics for the first time, this book presents enough information to carry out basic analytical tasks while also providing a solid foundation on which to build detailed knowledge for more complex work. That?s what you call a measure of spread!

Statistics from Scratch: An Introduction for Health Care Professionals

Statistics Further from Scratch is a down-to-earth, user-friendly book specifically designed to help today's health care professionals to cope with interpreting and presenting data. A follow-up to the best-selling Statistics from Scratch, this book provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow description of the common statistical tools, which both helps you to make the most of your own data and to interpret other published data.

Statistics Further from Scratch: For Health Care Professionals

Mathematics

Real man meals where time, fat, and calories do not matter are featured in a cookbook that includes recipes for garage-brewed beer, artery-clogging fried foods, grilled meats, and the vegetable of choice: potatoes. Original.

Bake It Like a Man: A Real Man's Cookbook

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Bowers, Sharon

Cooking Methods

William Morrow & Co.

During the summer of 1894, the giant sequoia trees -- the oldest living things on earth -- are being felled for lumber in northern California. Francie finds a note in a hole of an old sequoia stump and recognizes her sister's handwriting. But Carrie died in an accident six years earlier. Could the secret still be important? Francie is determined to find out. When her search turns dangerous and she needs to get to St. Joseph fast, she's faced with the choice to either give up -- or to ride the flume, the rickety track that carries lumber from the mills in the mountains to the lumberyard in St. Joseph. Should Francie risk her life for the secret her sister fought to keep? 
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 "She'd only heard of two men riding the flume successfully -- those two last summer. They had been arrested as soon as they got to St. Joseph. Two others had tried before that. One had ended up in the hospital, and the other man had been killed.... 
 "Her heart began to beat in slow, painful thuds. Was it such a crazy idea? Did she dare try it? Could she ride the flume to St. Joseph?" 
 During the summer of 1894, the giant sequoia trees -- the oldest living things on earth -- are being felled for lumber in northern California. Francie finds a note in a hole of an old sequoia stump and recognizes her sister's handwriting. But Carrie died in an accident six years earlier. Could the secret still be important? Francie is determined to find out. When her search turns dangerous and she needs to get to St. Joseph fast, she's faced with the choice to either give up -- or to ride the flume, the rickety track that carries lumber from the mills in the mountains to the lumberyard in St. Joseph. Should Francie risk her life for the secret her sister fought to keep? 
 * * * 
 "She'd only heard of two men riding the flume successfully -- those two last summer. They had been arrested as soon as they got to St. Joseph. Two others had tried before that. One had ended up in the hospital, and the other man had been killed.... 
 "Her heart began to beat in slow, painful thuds. Was it such a crazy idea? Did she dare try it? Could she ride the flume to St. Joseph?"

Riding the Flume

Teen & Young Adult

Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis

Historical Fiction

Simon&Schuster Children's Publishing

Just because you’re born with a “Y” chromosome doesn’t excuse you from cleaning the bathroom, especially in this day and age when time’s at a premium and partners have to be, well, partners. To help men step up to the plate (and wash it) is DAD’S OWN HOUSEKEEPING BOOK, the book of everything your mother never taught you about taking care of a house. Written by a real guy, in a real guy’s voice and with a direct guy-to-guy point of view, DAD’S OWN HOUSEKEEPING BOOK—in the spirit of Dad’s Own Cookbook, with 270,000 copies in print—takes even the most Swiffer-challenged dad and shows him that housekeeping is no different from yard work, that if you can organize your shop you can organize a kitchen, and if you can load a trunk you can load a dishwasher. From laundry room to attic storage, from the “Five- Minute Attack Plan: Bathroom” to the all-out assault of spring cleaning (it really does make a big difference), from mold to stains to picking-up-after-the-kids-without-driving-yourself-crazy, this is the comprehensive crash course. Here’s how to do the laundry without dulling colors. Stock the pantry to make weekday meals infinitely easier. How to get mildew off the shower tiles. How to make a bed—in one minute. How to be best friends with baking soda—just one of the many tips the author gives for saving money. And what you can do in thirty minutes to make your house completely presentable for your mother-in-law. Sorry, no more excuses.

Dad's Own Housekeeping Book: 137 Bright Ideas

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Workman Publishing Company

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Understanding Clinical Papers

Understanding Clinical Papers

Medical Statistics from Scratch: An Introduction for Health Professionals

Medical Statistics from Scratch

Understanding Clinical Papers

Statistics from Scratch: An Introduction for Health Care Professionals

Statistics Further from Scratch: For Health Care Professionals

Bake It Like a Man: A Real Man's Cookbook

Riding the Flume

Dad's Own Housekeeping Book: 137 Bright Ideas