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These are just a few references to help you with the research:
1. How to find a research question
Thabane L, Thomas T, Chengln Ye, Paul J. Posing a research question: not so simple. Can J Anaesth 2009; 56:71-79.
Can J Anaesth. 2009 Jan;56(1):71-9. doi: 10.1007/s12630-008-9007-4. Epub 2008 Dec 24
2. Tips for navigating PubMed
McGill 中国体育彩票 Health Centre. 10 Tips for navigating PUBMED?
?3. Cleaning your data before analysis:
Jan Van den Broeck*, Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham, Roger Eeckels, Kobus Herbst. Data Cleaning: Detecting, Diagnosing, and Editing Data Abnormalities. PLoS Medicine, October 2005 | Volume 2 | Issue 10 | e267
4. How to write an article:
These are a series of articles published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. Each aspect is one page long and a very good summary of what to do.
- Effective writing and publishing scientific papers-Part 1: how to get started.
- Effective writing and publishing scientific papers-Part 2: title and abstract.
- Effective writing and publishing scientific papers-Part 3: introduction.
- Effective writing and publishing scientific papers-Part 4: methods.
- Effective writing and publishing scientific papers-Part 5: results.?
- Effective writing and publishing scientific papers-Part 6: discussion.?
- Effective writing and publishing scientific papers-Part 7: tables and figure
- Effective writing and publishing scientific papers-Part 8: references
- Effective writing and publishing scientific papers-Part 9: authorship?
- Effective writing and publishing scientific papers-Part 10: choice of journal
- Effective writing and publishing scientific papers-Part 11: submitting a paper
5. Responding to the editor/reviewers of your article
Annesley TM. Top 10 tips for responding to the reviewer and editor comments. Clinical Chemistry 2011; 57:551-554
?6. Basic statistics:
These are a series of primers written in the Journal Effective Clinical Practice. The journal no longer is published but these are one-page introductions to basic statistical concepts are useful for clinicians.
- Primer on interpreting surveys.
- Primer on before and after studies.
- Primer on group randomised trials
- Primer on correlation coefficients
- Primer on statistical significance and p values.
- Primer on 95% confidence intervals.
- Primer on geographical variation in health
- Primer on type 1 and type 2 errors
- Primer on absolute vs. relative differences
- Primer on probability and interpreting their ratios
- Primer on scores: what counts?
- Primer on cost-effective analysis
- Primer on dissecting a medical imperative
- Primer on lead-time, length and overdiagnosis.
- Primer on the 95th confidence interval and the number needed to treat?
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