Table of Contents
1 Cover
4 Preface to the First Edition
5 Preface to the Second Edition SOME NOTES ON STATISTICAL SOFTWARE WRITING PAPERS FOR CLINICAL JOURNALS
6 Preface to the Third Edition
7 Preface to the Fourth Edition
8 PART I: Setting the Scene: Who Did What, and Why CHAPTER 1: Some Preliminaries WHO WROTE THE PAPER? IN WHAT SORT OF JOURNAL DOES THE PAPER APPEAR? WHO (AND WHAT) IS ACKNOWLEDGED? CHAPTER 2: The Abstract and Introduction THE ABSTRACT THE INTRODUCTION ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS CHAPTER 3: The Aims and Objectives HYPOTHESES OBJECTIVES THAT ARE NOT HYPOTHESIS TESTING STUDIES WITH UNCLEAR OBJECTIVES
9 PART II: Design Matters: What Type of Study Is It? CHAPTER 4: Descriptive Studies QUALITATIVE RESEARCH TYPES OF QUALITATIVE STUDY CHAPTER 5: Descriptive Studies CASE REPORTS CASE SERIES CROSS‐SECTIONAL STUDIES LONGITUDINAL STUDIES CHAPTER 6: Analytic Studies ECOLOGICAL STUDIES CROSS‐SECTIONAL, TWO‐GROUP STUDIES CASE–CONTROL STUDIES COHORT ANALYTIC STUDIES VARIATIONS IN CASE–CONTROL AND COHORT DESIGNS COMPARING AND CONTRASTING CASE–CONTROL AND COHORT STUDIES ‘STROBE' GUIDELINES CHAPTER 7: Intervention Studies TRIALS RANDOM ALLOCATION AND ITS CONCEALMENT CONSENT AND RANDOMIZATION IN TRIALS PLACEBOS OR TREATMENT‐AS‐USUAL PRAGMATIC AND EXPLANATORY TRIALS INTENTION‐TO‐TREAT ANALYSIS FEASIBILITY AND PILOT STUDIES CLUSTER RANDOMIZED TRIALS ADAPTIVE TRIAL DESIGN CONSORT GUIDELINES CHAPTER 8: Mixed Methods Research CHAPTER 9: Studies of Complex Interventions CHAPTER 10: Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis SYSTEMATIC REVIEW PUBLICATION AND OTHER BIASES THE FUNNEL PLOT HETEROGENEITY COMBINING THE STUDIES ‘PRISMA' GUIDELINES SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF NON‐TRIALS RESEARCH CHAPTER 11: Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies
10 PART III: The Cast: Finding Out About the Subjects of the Research CHAPTER 12: The Research Setting CHAPTER 13: Populations and Samples in Quantitative Research SAMPLING SAMPLE SIZE AND POWER CHAPTER 14: Research Using Already‐Collected Data SOURCES OF ALREADY‐COLLECTED DATA PROBLEMS WITH ALREADY‐COLLECTED DATA MISSING DATA IN ALREADY‐COLLECTED DATASETS
