Human Embryonic Stem Cells: The Practical Handbook
ISBN: 9780470033562 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With this valuable practical guide, three members of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have compiled and edited the definite handbook for the exciting new field of human embryonic stem cell research. The editors have gathered protocols from scientists with extensive reputation and expertise, describing and comparing currently used techniques for the culture of human stem cells and discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches.
Human Embryonic Stem Cells: The Practical Handbook contains the first centralised collection of methods used in human embryonic stem cell... With this valuable practical guide, three members of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have compiled and edited the definite handbook for the exciting n...
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965,19 zł |
Selection Bias and Covariate Imbalances in Randomized Clinical Trials
ISBN: 9780470863626 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selection bias can, and does, occur, even in randomized clinical trials. Steps need to be taken in order to ensure that this does not compromise the integrity of clinical trials; hence "Selection Bias and Covariate Imbalances in Randomized Clinical Trials" offers a comprehensive treatment of the subject and the methodology involved. This book:
Selection bias can, and does, occur, even in randomized clinical trials. Steps need to be taken in order to ensure that this does not compromise the i...
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389,12 zł |
Survival Analysis: A Practical Approach
ISBN: 9780470870402 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well received in its first edition, Survival Analysis: A Practical Approach is completely revised to provide an accessible and practical guide to survival analysis techniques in diverse environments.
Illustrated with many authentic examples, the book introduces basic statistical concepts and methods to construct survival curves, later developing them to encompass more specialised and complex models. During the years since the first edition there have been several new topics that have come to the fore and many new applications. Parallel developments in computer software... Well received in its first edition, Survival Analysis: A Practical Approach is completely revised to provide an accessible and practical guide ...
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469,13 zł |
Survival Models and Data Analysis
ISBN: 9780471349921 / Angielski / Miękka / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Survival analysis deals with the distribution of life times, essentially the times from an initiating event such as birth or the start of a job to some terminal event such as death or pension. This book, originally published in 1980, surveys and analyzes methods that use survival measurements and concepts, and helps readers apply the appropriate method for a given situation. Four broad sections cover introductions to data, univariate survival function, multiple-failure data, and advanced topics.
Survival analysis deals with the distribution of life times, essentially the times from an initiating event such as birth or the start of a job to som...
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783,84 zł |
Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis
ISBN: 9780471462095 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past few years, the number of applications of tracers for in vivo biomedical studies has greatly increased. New analytical tools at the genetic and protein levels have spurred this growth, opening the door for a deeper understanding of metabolic events. This in turn promises to yield significant advances in the understanding and treatment of human disease.
Now fully revised and expanded, Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research, Second Edition is the established definitive text on stable and radioactive isotope tracers. In unique, multidisciplinary fashion, it presents... In the past few years, the number of applications of tracers for in vivo biomedical studies has greatly increased. New analytical tools at the genetic...
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1466,59 zł |
Methods for Meta-Analysis in Medical Research
ISBN: 9780471490661 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With meta-analysis methods playing a crucial role in health research in recent years, this important and clearly-written book provides a much-needed survey of the field.
Meta-analysis provides a framework for combining the results of several clinical trials and drawing inferences about the effectiveness of medical treatments. The move towards evidence-based health care and practice is underpinned by the use of meta-analysis. This book: * Provides a thorough criticism and an up-to-date survey of meta-analysis methods * Emphasises the practical approach, and illustrates the... With meta-analysis methods playing a crucial role in health research in recent years, this important and clearly-written book provides a much-needed s...
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575,81 zł |
A Manager's Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials
ISBN: 9780471788706 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This newly updated edition of the benchmark guide to computer-assisted clinical trials provides a comprehensive primer for prospective managers. It covers every critical issue of the design and conduct of clinical trials, including study design, organization, regulatory agency liaison, data collection and analysis, as well as recruitment, software, monitoring, and reporting.
Keeping the same user-friendly format as the original, this Second Edition features new examples and the latest developments in regulatory guidelines, such as e-submission procedures and computerized direct... This newly updated edition of the benchmark guide to computer-assisted clinical trials provides a comprehensive primer for prospective managers. It co...
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692,38 zł |
Analysing Survival Data from Clinical Trials and Observational Studies
ISBN: 9780471939870 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The statistical methods and techniques described in this text range from descriptive and exploratory analysis to multivariate regression methods. Also discussed are the features and performance levels of statistical software packages that exist to apply the methods of analysis. Illustrative data sets are used throughout to describe methods of analysis and to report on results.
The statistical methods and techniques described in this text range from descriptive and exploratory analysis to multivariate regression methods. Also...
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1093,21 zł |
Good Clinical Practice: Standard Operating Procedures for Clinical Researchers
ISBN: 9780471969365 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a growing trend for investigators/centres to adopt a more formal approach to the procedures applied to various stages of clinical trials. Most environments employ some form of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) which are designed to be used as working tools within whatever field they are used, such as SOPs in hospitals for doctors and nurses. With exacting standards of good clinical practice being applied to all areas, optimizing the design and use of SOPs is more in demand every day. This text provides checklists of sponsoring companies, clinical research organizations, and...
There is a growing trend for investigators/centres to adopt a more formal approach to the procedures applied to various stages of clinical trials. Mos...
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671,82 zł |
Impure Science: Aids, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledgevolume 7
ISBN: 9780520214453 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of "how certainty is constructed or deconstructed," leading us through the views of medical researchers, activists, policy makers, and others to discover how knowledge about AIDS emerges out of what he calls "credibility struggles." Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political...
In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to ...
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154,69 zł |
Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care: Volume 12
ISBN: 9780520243163 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book is an informative contribution to the education of future practioners during medical school and residency training. Daly tells the story of the evolution of EBM by recounting the intellectual contributions, spanning four decades, of individuals wishing to see the best available evidence about the management of clinical conditions incorporated into the practice of medicine."--Michael Whitcomb, Senior VP and Director of Division of Medical Education at the Association of American Medical Colleges"This book is an engaging account of the evolution of evidence-based medicine, and an...
"This book is an informative contribution to the education of future practioners during medical school and residency training. Daly tells the story of...
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517,35 zł |
What Price Better Health?: Hazards of the Research Imperativevolume 9
ISBN: 9780520246645 / Angielski / Miękka / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocative work, Daniel Callahan exposes the ways in which such a seemingly high and humane ideal can be corrupted and distorted into a harmful practice.
Medical research, with its power to attract money and political support, and its promise of cures for a wide range of medical burdens, has good and bad sides--which are often indistinguishable. In What Price Better Health?, Callahan teases out the distinctions and differences, revealing the... The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocative ...
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186,36 zł |
Power Analysis for Experimental Research: A Practical Guide for the Biological, Medical and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780521024563 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Power analysis is an essential tool for determining whether a statistically significant result can be expected in a scientific experiment prior to the experiment being performed. This comprehensive, accessible book provides practicing researchers with step-by-step instructions for conducting power/sample size analyses, assuming only basic prior knowledge of summary statistics and normal distribution. It contains a unified approach to statistical power analysis, with numerous easy-to-use tables that make further calculations or statistical expertise unnecessary.
Power analysis is an essential tool for determining whether a statistically significant result can be expected in a scientific experiment prior to the...
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248,25 zł |
The Design and Analysis of Research Studies
ISBN: 9780521425803 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides students and research workers in the biological, medical and social sciences with the statistical background needed to collect and analyse data in an intelligent and critical manner. Key examples and case studies are used to illustrate commonly encountered research problems and to explain how they may be solved or even avoided altogether. Professor Manly also presents a clear understanding of the opportunities and limitations of different research designs, as well as an introduction to some new methods of analysis that are proving increasingly popular. Topics covered...
This book provides students and research workers in the biological, medical and social sciences with the statistical background needed to collect and ...
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354,66 zł |
The Embryo Research Debate: Science and the Politics of Reproduction
ISBN: 9780521571807 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a nontechnical account of the debate concerning human embryo research, concentrating on the British parliamentary debates of 1984-1990. It traces the debates' origins back to conflicts over abortion and moral reform in the 1960s, and examines reactions in the 1990s to sex selection and the use of eggs from human fetuses for research. Michael Mulkay shows how embryo research develops within a complex social environment, writing for anyone interested in the relationship between science-based assisted reproduction and society.
This book provides a nontechnical account of the debate concerning human embryo research, concentrating on the British parliamentary debates of 1984-1...
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471,26 zł |
Searching the Web for Health: A Guide to Finding Reliable Medical Information on the Internet
ISBN: 9780595303434 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sick and tired of trying to muddle through the enormous volume of confusing health information on the web? Finding it impossible to distinguish factual remedies from contrived marketing ploys? "Searching the Web for Health" is the up-to-date resource you can rely on to show you how to get the most out of surfing the web for the health information you need. Whether you want to relieve a bad cough or find the most advanced research on cancer treatment, "Searching the Web for Health" will help you separate fact from fiction and give you the strategies, knowledge, and expert resources you need to...
Sick and tired of trying to muddle through the enormous volume of confusing health information on the web? Finding it impossible to distinguish factua...
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51,32 zł |
A Life in Academic Medicine
ISBN: 9780595442539 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Quality Improvement Research: Understanding the Science of Change in Health Care
ISBN: 9780727916402 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quality improvement in health care is now a stated objective of health services worldwide, yet effective delivery is not always apparent. This book discusses research methods that should help to improve the delivery of quality.
Quality improvement in health care is now a stated objective of health services worldwide, yet effective delivery is not always apparent. This book di...
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319,78 zł |
Human Trials: Scientists, Investors, and Patients in the Quest for a Cure
ISBN: 9780738206776 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Susan Quinn's extraordinary story takes the reader into the closed world of experimental "human trials" in which new drugs are developed. Both the portrait of a dedicated scientist and the archetypal story of all medical research, Human Trials is the emotion-laden, roller-coaster trip from the lab bench to the medicine cabinet, in which scientists risk their reputations, venture capitalists their millions, and patients their very lives. A Merloyd Lawrence Book
Susan Quinn's extraordinary story takes the reader into the closed world of experimental "human trials" in which new drugs are developed. Both the por...
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94,44 zł |
Handbook of Pre-Clinical Continuous Intravenous Infusion
ISBN: 9780748408672 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The techniques of continuous infusion are used for the administration of drugs during surgery, chemotherapy and in the treatment of a wide range of acute and chronic diseases. To enable these pharmaceuticals to be safely tested in humans, it is a regulatory and ethical requirement that their safety must first be assessed pre-clinically.
The techniques of continuous infusion are used for the administration of drugs during surgery, chemotherapy and in the treatment of a wide range of ac...
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378,50 zł |