To your health : how to understand what research tells us about risk /
The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, other accepted as "scientific truth" for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true. Physicians are faced with trying to make sense of those conf...
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New York :
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2005.
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Sommario:
- THE BASICS OF RISK
- Why did we write this book?
- What is risk?
- What is a risk factor?
- Are all risk factors equal? (Types of risk factors)
- How do we know if something is an important risk factor? (Statistical and clinical significance)
- How do risk factors work together? (Moderators, mediators, and other inter-actions)
- HOW TO RECOGNIZE GOOD AND BAD RESEARCH
- Who was in the study and why that matters (Sampling)
- What's the difference between a risk factor and a cause? (Research design)
- What else should we pay attention to? (Reliability and validity of measurements and diagnoses)
- CUTTING EDGE APPROACHES
- How strong is the risk factor? (Potency)
- How do we do moderator-mediator analysis?
- How do we use multiple risk factors? (ROC tree methods)
- WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
- Where are we now?
- Making the best of good studies
- Hope for the future.