Doing research in emergency and acute care : making order out of chaos

Content: List of contributors, ix    Part 1: Getting ready: Preparing for your research study    1 Aspects of research specific to acute care, 3 Jarrod M. Mosier and Peter Rosen    2 Aspects of feasibility in research, 7 Kama Z. Guluma    3 How do I formulate a research question?, 13 Michael P. Wilson    4 Evidence?]based medicine: Finding the knowledge gap, 17 Eddy Lang and Zubair Bayat    5 How to carry out an efficient literature search, 21 Aleksandr Tichter, Louise Falzon, and Peter Wyer    6 What do I need to know to get started with animal and basic science research?, 31 George J. Shaw    7 The IRB process: How to write up a human studies protocol, 37 Christian Tomaszewski    8 Ethics in research: How to collect data ethically, 45 Nas Rafi and Brian Snyder    9 Safety in research: How to ensure patient safety?, 53 Robert Grover and Vicken Y. Totten    Part 2: Getting it done: Doing your research study    10 How to design a study that everyone will believe: Minimizing bias and confounding, 61 Michael Witting    11 How to design a study that everyone will believe: An overview of research studies and picking the right design, 65 Julian Villar, Jennifer Lanning, and Robert Rodriguez    12 How to design a study that everyone will believe: Random selection and allocation of patients to treatment conditions, 71 Katie L. Tataris, Mary Mercer, and Prasanthi Govindarajan    13 How to design a study that everyone will believe: Surveys, 79 Edward M. Castillo and Gary M. Vilke    14 How to design a study that everyone will believe: Retrospective reviews, 85 Jonathan Auten and Paul Ishimine    15 How to design a study that everyone will believe: Prehospital studies, 93 Christopher Kahn    16 How to design a study that everyone will believe: Ethical concepts for special populations in emergency research, 97 Kimberly Nordstrom    17 How to design a study that everyone will believe: Industry studies, 105 Richard F. Clark and Alicia B. Minns    18 How to design a study that everyone will believe: Prospective studies, 115 Gary Gaddis    19 How to design a study that everyone will believe: effectiveness, safety, and the intention to treat, 121 Ashleigh Campillo, Christopher J. Coyne, and Juan A. Luna    20 How to design a study that everyone will believe: Emergency department operations and systems, 129 Vaishal Tolia    21 How to design a study that everyone will believe: The challenges of doing international research, 133 Vicken Y. Totten    22 The development of clinical prediction rules, 139 Benton R. Hunter and Christopher R. Carpenter    23 Testing the safety and efficacy of devices: Device safety, as well as obtaining an IDE (investigational device exemption) from the FDA, 149 Sean?]Xavier Neath    24 Privacy in research: How to collect data safely and confidentially, 155 Gary M. Vilke and Edward M. Castillo    25 How do I establish a research assistant program?, 161 Judd E. Hollander    26 How to complete a research study well and in a minimum of time: The importance of collaboration, 167 Austin Hopper and Michael P. Wilson    Part 3: Getting it out there: Analyzing and publishing your study    27 Eliminating common misconceptions to enable intelligent use of biostatistics: How can a novice use statistics more intelligently?, 175 Gary Gaddis    28 Basic statistics: sample size and power: How are sample size and power calculated?, 183 Manish Garg, Richard Harrigan, and Gary Gaddis    29 Basic statistics: Means, P values, and confidence intervals, 191 Daniel del Portal and Richard Harrigan    30 Basic statistics: Assessing the impact of therapeutic interventions with odds-ratios, relative risk, and hazard ratios, 199 Jesse J. Brennan and Edward M. Castillo    31 Basic statistics: Assessing the impact of a diagnostic test
 choosing a gold standard, sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, and likelihood ratios, 205 Stephen R. Hayden    32 Advanced biostatistics: Chi?]square, ANOVA, regression, and multiple regression, 213 Gary Gaddis    33 Can I combine the results of this study with others? An introduction to systematic reviews, 223 Brian H. Rowe    34 How to write a scientific paper for publication, 231 Stephen R. Hayden    35 How do I make reviewers happy? The review process: What do reviewers look for in a manuscript? What is the review process?, 239 David J. Karras and Jacob W. Ufberg    36 How do I write a grant?, 247 Zachary D.W. Dezman and Jon Mark Hirshon    37 How to make an academic career: Developing a successful path in research, 253 Deirdre Anglin and Michael Menchine    Glossary, 259    Index, 267