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VMS 576 - Introduction to Clinical Research

Links & Resources

Ver. 2.0   Initial 9/05/06 Updated 07/02/08


The purpose of this web page is to provide links to on-line resources for clinical research and EBVM. I update this list irregularly as I happen onto good on-line resources and when I need to use it for teaching.  Please let me know if you find mistakes or resources that I've overlooked.


Ceteris paribus "with all other things being the same" (wikipedia latin phrases)

Recommended Books:

  • Cockcroft P, MA Holmes (2003). Handbook of Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine (Amazon)
  • Day RA & B Gastel (2006). How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 6th ed. (Amazon)
  • Hulley SB et al. (2007). Designing Clinical Research: An Epidemiologic Approach, 3rd ed. (Amazon)
  • Ramey, DW (2007). Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine. Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice 23(2)  (full text on-line to WSU)
  • Schmidt, PL (2007). Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine. Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice 37(3) (full text on-line to WSU)
  • Silvia, PJ (2007). How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Amazon)
  • Stock, M., A (1985). Practical Guide to Graduate Research, McGraw Hill, New York. (pprbk, excellent guide if you can find it)

WSU Specific Resources:

Biostatistics Resources - Sample Size:

Literature Searching & Library Resources:

Duke University Medical Center Library Sites (Connie Schardt per Vicki Croft):

Reference Management:

Systematic Reviews:

Scientific Presentations:

Scientific Writing:

books:

blogs:

Grantsmanship:

Evidence-based Medicine Discussion:

  • Effect Measure (blog)
    • Wherein I respond to Orac's counter-attack (12/24/06) (ebm discussion)
  • Evidence-Based Medicine: What it is and what it isn't (BMJ 312: 71-2, 1996)
  • EBM librarians (blog)
  • Evidence-based medicine under attack (PLoS 9/11/06)
  • Another Post-Modernist Attack on EBM: Because EBM is Not a "Vehicle" for Anyone's Political Program? (Health Care Renewal, 12/1/06)
  • Combining the science and the art (DB's Medical Rants, 8/25/06)
  • Notes from Dr. RW (blog)
    • Frequently asked questions on woo and mainstream medicine (12/17/06)
  • Overcoming Bias (blog)
  • Respectful Insolence (blog)
    • Is evidence-based medicine "sufficient" for alternative medicine research? (1/16/07)
    • Orac applies some Respectful Insolence™ to a comment spammer (12/27/06)
    • A belated response to a challenge: Differentiating woo from non-woo in medicine (12/11/06)
    • Damn those microfascists demanding evidence-based medicine! (8/15/06)
  • The Medical Blog Network
  • Veterinary Medicine and the Philosophy of Science (my webpage)
  • Wikipedia: Evidence-based medicine

Statistics & Graphics Programs: (note: no endorsement implied with listing or not listing)

Surveys

Philosophy of Science

  • "Emerging" Pollutants, and Communicating the Science of Environmental Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry – Pharmaceuticals in the Environment – (J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 2001, 12(10), 1067-1076.pdf  - pgs 11-13)

Other Academic Sites:

Papers:

  • Plant JD, JM Giovanini, A Villarroel (2007).Frequency of appropriate and inappropriate presentation and analysis methods of ordered categorical data in the veterinary dermatology literature from January 2003 to June 2006. Vet Dermatology 18(4):260-266.

Federal Sites:

Other Information Sources:

Clinical Research Methods: Educational Resources (U Utah School of Medicine)

Merck Manual

ProMed-Mail: The global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins, open to all sources.

PubMed

Risk = Hazard + Outrage: The Peter Sandman Risk Communication Web Site

on-line papers:

  • The design of randomized controlled trials of veterinary vaccines, 2004 (IR Dohoo, Anim Hlth Res Rev 5(2):235-238, pdf)

other books:

Several books that illustrate why we need to follow a rigorous scientific process:

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (M Gladwell) (Amazon) - social dissemination of information

Selected longer review sources:

Wikipedia

Blogs:

notes:

I: info for Merials intradermal recombinate FeLV vaccine - Vet Record, FortDodge Leptovax4


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