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 Dosing Antipsychotic Medications: Insights From Data and Practice - A Video Symposium $85.00 Dosing is often the key to establishing efficacy and minimizing side effects of atypical antipsychotics. Tailoring medication dose to severity of illness and phase of illness allows clinicians to meet individual patient needs. Clinical experience regarding dosing may differ from data collected during clinical trials. The PsychLink experts will merge the insights gleaned from clinical trials with the lessons learned from clinical practice to outline optimal dosing strategies of atypical antipsychotics.  Understanding Health Care Outcomes Research $89.95 The first edition of this ground-breaking book was the pioneer text on outcomes research. It's a resource no quality-minded health care professional should be without. Both practical and applied, this book makes sense of the new science of studying health care outcomes - a vital process in health care quality assurance. Understanding Health Care Outcomes Research, Second Edition, gives readers a wealth of expert advice on the basic framework needed to conduct any type of outcomes research, formulating the model, choosing the study design, developing meaningful measures, gathering data, and assessing and presenting results. The second edition includes new chapters on confounders, research design, and working within clinical settings. All chapters have been updated. Understanding Health Care Outcomes Research, Second Edition includes more attention to larger interventions that include population level changes.  Health Care Outcomes: Collaborative Path-Based Approaches $120.95 Journal of Nursing Administration, Bradenton, FL. A culmination of the changes that we have experienced over the last two decades and a collection of the most current and innovative presentations in pain-based, collaborative practices. Includes many charts and tables. Softcover. DNLM: Critical Pathways.  Quality of Life Outcomes in Clinical Trials and Health-Care Evaluation: A Practical Guide to analysis and interpretation (Statistics in Practice) $90.00 An essential, up-to-date guide to the design of studies and selection of the correct QoL instruments for observational studies and clinical trials. Quality of Life (QoL) outcomes or Person/Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are now frequently being used in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies. This book provides a practical guide to the design, analysis and interpretation of studies that use such outcomes. QoL outcomes tend to generate data with discrete, bounded and skewed distributions. Many investigators are concerned about the appropriateness of using standard statistical methods to analyse QoL data and want guidance on what methods to use. QoL outcomes are frequently used in cross-sectional surveys and non-randomised health-care evaluations. Provides a user-friendly guide to the design and analysis of clinical trials and observational studies in relation to QoL outcomes. Discusses the problems caused by QoL outcomes and presents intervention options to help tackle them. Guides the reader step-by-step through the selection of appropriate QoLs. Features exercises and solutions and a supporting website providing downloadable data files. Illustrated throughout with examples and case studies drawn from the author”Ēs experience, this book offers statisticians and clinicians guidance on choosing between the numerous available QoL instruments. |
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