Clinical Research Case Studies of Successes and Failures /

This book provides insights into how to be a productive clinical researcher via real-life case examples of successful clinical research -- and also clinical research gone awry. Through these examples of success and failure, the book develops a blueprint for building a career in clinical research. Fu...

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Main Author: Brock-Utne, John G. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2516-2
Table of Contents:
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Basic Premise
  • Case 1. A “good” question
  • Case 2. A “bad” question
  • Case 3. Why were 116 patients excluded?
  • Case 4. Sometimes a good question evolves from a bad one
  • Case 5. What went wrong?
  • Case 6. Check your facts
  • Case 7. All is not lost
  • Case 8. An important lesson
  • Case 9. A lucky escape
  • Case 10. A letter or a full paper
  • Case 11. This could be serious. Be prepared
  • Case 12. Not correct procedure
  • Case 13. A lesson well learned
  • Case 14. Taking out a patent. Should you or should you not?
  • Case 15. Taking out a patent. Watch out
  • Case 16. A laboratory lesson
  • Case 17. Before you start any research
  • Case 18. An offer of employment. What to look for
  • Case 19. What should you do?
  • Case 20. Who to trust
  • Case 21. Elementary
  • Case 22. Never give up
  • Case 23. How long should a study go on?
  • Case 24. What to do
  • Case 25. To what journal should you send your work?
  • Case 26. A drug sponsored trial
  • Case 27. The difference between research and quality assurance/improvement
  • Case 28. Stopping a clinical study
  • Case 29. Controversy
  • Case 30. The P Value
  • Case 31. How many authors?
  • Case 32. If you injure your patient
  • Case 33. Multicenter trials
  • Case 34. Unprofessional behavior
  • Case 35. Tips on how to get the Institutional Review Board (IRB) submission completed and passed
  • Case 36. How to perform and report the result of a survey
  • Case 37. Validity of the cricoid pressure (Sellick’s maneuver
  • Case 38. Another unprofessional behavior
  • Case 39. A data set
  • Case 40. Taking over an ongoing clinical trial
  • Case 41. Should you do a pilot study in this proposed trial?
  • Case 42. An inconclusive result (negative result). What to do
  • Case 43. Retrospective studies. What to watch out for
  • Case 44. Plagiarism
  • Case 45. Pediatric research
  • Case 46. Your paper is rejected. What to do
  • Case 47. You disagree with a conclusion of a published article
  • Case 48. Is this a good study?
  • Case 49. Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
  • Case 50. Is the title of a paper or grant important?
  • Case 51. Sampling and subjects
  • Case 52. What not to do if you are a mentor
  • Case 53. Be aware
  • Case 54. A statistical impasse
  • Case 55. A bad outcome
  • Case 56. A case report
  • Case 57. Are case reports becoming extinct
  • Case 58. A clinical pharmacology study
  • Case 59. Watch out
  • Case 60. A new equipment
  • Case 61. Those that ignore the past
  • Case 62. What are the safety data for this formulation?
  • Case 63. This is a test to see what you have learned
  • Review of the clinical research process. From the beginning to the end
  • The future of clinical research
  • Summary of Pearls.