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I. Medical Research Explained

1. Medical Research – Searching for Answers

2. The Case-Control Method – Looking Backwards

3. The Cohort Study – Watchful Waiting

4. The Clinical Trial –The Gold Standard

5. Comparing the Methods – Qualitative Differences

II. Understanding the Clinical Trial

6. The Protocol – The Guiding Light

7. The Control Group – Leveling the Playing Field

8. Measurements – They'ever Exact

9. Bias Control – A Closer Look at Blinding and Randomization

10. Utility – Are Clinical Trial Results Useful?

11. Research Discrimination – Inadequately Tested Populations

12. Seven Deadly Flaws – The Clinical Trials' Achilles' Heel

III. Tools of the Trade

13. Statistics – Was the Finding Significant?

14. Analysis Issues – A Lot of Choices

15. Meta Analysis – An Alternative to Large Trials

4. The Real World

16. Research Results That Clashed – What's the Right Answer?

17. Hormone Replacement Therapy – The Silver Bullet That Misfired

18. Publishing – Getting the Word Out to Doctors

19. The Public Forum – Sharing the News with the Public

20. Product Development – Getting Discoveries to the Market

21. Medical Innovations – Regulators, Resources and Results

22. Science and Politics – A Troubling Mixture

23. Research Misconduct – Irresistible Temptation

24. Postmarketing Surveillance – An Imperfect System

25. Regulatory Reform – Changes Needed

26. Journey's End – A Call for Action

Nyckelord: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical TEC059000