Clinical Research Design: Textbook for Higher Medical Colleges

Author: Xiao Shunzhen
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The book "Clinical Research Design" is a teaching material written for medical and nursing students who are upgrading from associate's to bachelor's degrees. It is authored by teachers with rich experience in teaching and research practice. The book consists of 11 chapters and 270,000 words, covering topics such as introduction, establishing research questions, literature review, research design, data collection and analysis, and paper writing, providing a comprehensive reflection of the entire process of clinical research. Since many of the students in the medical and nursing programs for upgrading are from clinical backgrounds, the book not only aims to align with the training objectives of undergraduate medical and nursing students but also emphasizes the connection between theory and practice as well as practicality. For example, it includes more clinical case studies, introduces computer-based literature search methods and online medical information retrieval in the literature review chapter, and adds a chapter on how to write a research proposal. The text is written to be concise and easy to understand, with practical content. This book serves as a teaching material for medical and nursing students upgrading from associate's to bachelor's degrees and can also be used as a reference for teaching at other levels.