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Lawrence Rosenberg
McGill University

Lawrence Joseph
McGill University

Alan Barkun
McGill University

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ISBN: 978-1-57059-672-8
Pub date: 2000-01-01
244 pages
37 figures
40 tables

About this book

This book is intended for the practicing surgeon. It is designed to offer practical insights into the essentials of an epidemiological, statistical and outcomes-based approach to surgical practice. Surgeons are invited to begin to develop the requisite skills that will allow them to communicate effectively with their colleagues in epidemiology and biostatistics in order to develop an optimized approach to patient care.

Table of contents

Epidemiologic Methods for Surgery
Jean-François Boivin, Alan Barkun

Introduction to Biostatistics: Describing and Drawing Inferences from Data
Lawrence Joseph

Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests / Primer on Clinical Trials
Joseph Romagnuolo, Alan N. Barkun, Lawrence Joseph

Primer on Clinical Trials
Robin S. McLeod

Linear and Logistic Regression Analysis
R. Platt

Survival Analysis
David B. Wolfson and Cyr Emile M'Lan

A Brief Introduction to Meta-Analysis
Lawrence Joseph

An Introduction to Decision Analysis
Alan Barkun, Neena Abraham, Lawrence Joseph

Pharmacoeconomics and Surgery
Pierre MacNeil and Lawrence Rosenberg

The Costing of Medical Resources
Ralph Crott

Databases and Registries
J. Sampalis

"Do-it-yourself Outcomes": Using Outcomes in Clinical Practice to Assess and Improve Quality of Care
Liane Feldman, Jeffrey Barkun

Technology Assessment
Jeffrey Barkun, Alan Barkun

Companion Books

Surgical Oncology
David N. Krag

Breast Diseases
Patrick I. Borgen, Arnold D.K. Hill

Pediatric Surgery
Robert M. Arensman, Daniel A. Bambini, P. Stephen Almond

Endocrine Surgery
Richard A. Prinz, Edgar D. Staren