An essential, up-to-date guide to the design of studies and selection of the correct QoL instruments for observational studies and clinical trials.
Quality of Life (QoL) outcomes or Person/Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are now frequently being used in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies. This book provides a practical guide to the design, analysis and interpretation of studies that use such outcomes.
QoL outcomes tend to generate data with discrete, bounded and skewed distributions. Many investigators are concerned about the...
An essential, up-to-date guide to the design of studies and selection of the correct QoL instruments for observational studies and clinical trials....
A complete guide to understanding cluster randomised trials
Written by two researchers with extensive experience in the field, this book presents a complete guide to the design, analysis and reporting of cluster randomised trials. It spans a wide range of applications: trials in developing countries, trials in primary care, trials in the health services. A key feature is the use of R code and code from other popular packages to plan and analyse cluster trials, using data from actual trials. The book contains clear technical descriptions of the models used, and considers in detail...
A complete guide to understanding cluster randomised trials
Written by two researchers with extensive experience in the field, this book pre...