Tetyana L Vasylyeva

Overview of Clinical Study Designs Tetyana L Vasylyeva

If you are interested in this book, it means that you want to advance clinical science and want to know how and what options you have, where to start, and how to move forward with "evidence-based medicine." Of course, if you have a research question, you want to answer and find proof of your ideas. There is new technology coming all the time. The questions, which were unfeasible to answer before, had a fresh "wind" approach and a higher resolution of the subjects; that could answer previously "impossible to answer" questions. Before you start, you need to understand that conducting good research is a complicated task, time-consuming, energy-driven, and sometimes expensive. Nonetheless, it is also gratifying with a feeling of accomplishment and benefit to society. We hope this book will help you to answer some of the research questions. We will try to describe and explain different study designs in this book. It will be up to you which one to choose, which one fits your ideas and goals. Good luck with your study.