Pre-Owned Modern Methods of Clinical Investigation 9780309042864 Used

9780309042864. Pre-owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 244. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 244 p. Medical Innovation at the Crossroads, 1. The very rapid pace of advances in biomedical research promises us a wide range of new drugs, medical devices, and clinical procedures. The extent to which these discoveries will benefit the public, however, depends in large part on the methods we choose for developing and testing them. Modern Methods of Clinical Investigation focuses on strategies for clinical evaluation and their role in uncovering the actual benefits and risks of medical innovation. Essays explore differences in our current systems for evaluating drugs, medical devices, and clinical procedures; health insurance databases as a tool for assessing treatment outcomes; the role of the medical profession, the Food and Drug Administration, and industry in stimulating the use of evaluative methods; and more. This book will be of special interest to policymakers, regulators, executives in the medical industry, clinical researchers, and physicians. Table of Contents Front Matter 1. Medical Technology Development: An Introduction to the Innovation-Evaluation Nexus 2. The Selection of Endpoints in Evaluation Research 3. Advances in Health Status Measurement: The Potential to Improve Experimental and Non-Experimental Data Collection 4. What is Outcomes Research? 5. Strengths and Weaknesses of Health Insurance Data Systems for Assessing Outcomes 6. Perscription-Event Monitoring: An Example of Total Population Post-Marketing Drug Serveillance 7. The Role of Decision Analysis in the Translation of Research Findings into Clinical Practice 8. Meta-Analysis: A Quantitative Approach to Research Integration 9. An Introduction to a Bayesian Method for Meta-Analysis: The Confidence Profile Method 10. Should We Change the Rules for Evaluating Medical Technologies? 11. Attitudinal Factors That Influence the Utilization of Modern Evaluative Methods Appendix A: Comparing the Development of Drugs, Devices, and Clinical Procedures Appendix B: Workshop Agenda Appendix C: Contributors Index