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1 online resource |
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Open textbook library |
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Open Textbook Library
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| Contents |
Introduction to field trials of health interventions -- Types of intervention and their development -- Reviewing the literature -- Trial design -- Trial size -- Ethical considerations -- Trial governance -- Preparing grant applications -- Community engagement -- Censuses and mapping -- Randomization, blinding, and coding -- Outcome measures and case definition -- Preliminary studies and pilot testing -- Questionnaires -- Social and behavioural research -- Field organization and ensuring data of high quality -- Field laboratory methods -- Budgeting and accounting -- Intervention costing and economic analysis -- Data management -- Methods of analysis -- Phase IV studies -- Reporting and using trial results |
| Summary |
"Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in "field trials", which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures and methods used in trials that have been conducted in the past have generally not been published. As a consequence, those planning such trials have few guidelines available and little access to previously accumulated knowledge. In this book the practical issues of trial design and conduct are discussed fully and in sufficient detail for the text to be used as a "toolbox" by field investigators. The toolbox has now been extensively tested through use of the first two editions and this third edition is a comprehensive revision, incorporating the many developments that have taken place with respect to trials since 1996 and involving more than 30 contributors. Most of the chapters have been extensively revised and 7 new chapters have been added."--Open Textbook Library |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Attribution-NonCommercial |
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Tropical medicine -- Research -- Methodology
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Tropical medicine.
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Sociology.
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Social sciences.
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Medical care.
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Medical personnel.
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Public health.
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Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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Tropical Medicine
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic
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Medicine
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Sociology
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Population Characteristics
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Clinical Trials as Topic
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Social Sciences
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Delivery of Health Care
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Health Occupations
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Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic
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Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
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Evaluation Studies as Topic
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Disciplines and Occupations
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Epidemiologic Methods
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Investigative Techniques
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Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms
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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
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Quality of Health Care
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Public Health
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Environment and Public Health
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Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
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Health Workforce
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Health Personnel
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Patient Care
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sociology.
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social sciences.
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public health.
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Medical care
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Medical personnel
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Public health
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Social sciences
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Sociology
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Tropical medicine
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morrow, R. H, Contributor
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Ross, David A, Contributor
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Smith, Peter G., Contributor
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| ISBN |
0198732864 |
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9780198732860 |
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