<p>Since the last edition of this book was published, major developments in computer technology have affected both the practice of medicine and the methods of analyzing medical data. These advances make the focus on this revised edition - understanding many of the statistical methods that are used in modern medical studies - all the more important. Two new chapters have been added by the authors. One provides readers with an introduction to the analysis of longitudinal data. The other augments previous material concerning the design of clinical trials, exploring topics such as the use of surrogate markers, multiple outcomes, equivalence trials and the planning of efficacy-toxicity studies. In addition to providing new information and fine-tuning the rest of the book, the authors have reorganized the final six chapters so that the topics build, naturally, on each other. This latest edition is recommended both as an introduction to medical statistics and as a valuable tool in explaining the more complex statistical methods and techniques used today.</p>

Using and Understanding Medical Statistics

Science & Math

Matthews, David E.

Farewell, Vernon T.

Biological Sciences

S Karger Pub

Medical textbooks are mainly oriented by body systems, disease or diagnosis, yet the practicing physician is confronted with the patient's complaint by a symptom, physical sign or laboratory abnormality, from which he is expected to diagnose and proceed with treatment. The traditional medical approach is through differential diagnosis by exclusion. Algorithms provide a direct approach to breaking down long lists/tables of differential diagnosis into smaller, more manageable ones. Often, a whole group of diagnoses can be excluded by single or a group of signs, blood tests or imaging. This book is meant as a pragmatic text to be used at the patient's bedside. It classifies common clinical symptoms, signs and laboratory abnormalities as they present themselves in daily practice.Aimed at an audience of general and family practitioners, trainees or pediatricians who are not exposed on a day-to-day basis to pediatric endocrine problems, it provides a logical, concise and cost-effective approach from which they can profit and acquire medical reasoning.

Practical Algorithms in Pediatric Endocrinology

Medical Books

Ze'ev Hochberg

Ze'va Hochberg

Medicine

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