Evaluating Drug Literature: A Statistical Approach

Chapter 1: Introduction to Drug Literature. Chapter 2: Searching Drug Literature. Chapter 3: The Publication Process. Chapter 4: Classification of Study Design: Observational Research. Chapter 5: Study Design: Experimental Research. Chapter 6: Data Measurement, Description, and Presentation. Chapter 7: Concepts in Inferential Statistics: Distributions, Confidence Intervals, and Hypothesis Testing. Chapter 8: Evaluating Statistical Results: Parametric Tests. Chapter 9: Evaluating Statistical Results: Nonparametric Tests. Chapter 10: Evaluating Statistical Results: Correlation, Regression, Survival Life Analysis. Chapter 11: Critical Appraisal of Meta-Analysis. Chapter 12: Evaluating Pharmacoeconomic Literature. Chapter 13: Managing Uncertainty in Decision Analysis with Sensitivity Analysis. Chapter 14: Ethical Concerns in Drug Research and Literature Evaluation. Chapter 15: The Future of Drug Information and the Internet. Answer Key. Appendix A: z-Score for a Normal Distribution. Appendix B: The t Distribution. Appendix C: The X2 Distribution. Appendix D: F-Table for p<0.05 and p<0.01. Appendix E: Health Care-Related Web Sites.