Background: Height, a marker of childhood environmental exposures, is positively
associated with prostate cancer risk, perhaps through the insulin-like growth factor system …

The book focuses on the design of rigorous trials rather than their statistical underpinnings,
with chapters on: pragmatic designs; placebo designs; preference approaches; unequal …

Evaluating interventions in palliative care using randomized controlled trials (RCTs) has
helped advance the specialty and create an evidence base for the delivery of care. RCTs …

For most of the past century, researchers relied on quantitative research to answer their
research questions. However, in the 1980s and 1990s many researchers turned to an …

From bandage to the bioreactor, this book looks at five different device technologies from
inception to healthcare practice, drawing on medical sociology, science and technology …

Clinical trials have underpinned progress in the treatment of cancer in childhood: about 75%
of children newly diagnosed with cancer can expect to be long-term survivors. This success …

定性研究于20 世纪初发源于人类学, 社会学, 心理学, 民俗学等学科. 至今已经作为一种研究方法
引起了一定重视, 越来越多的医务工作者给予定性研究一定的青睐. 就定性研究的定义, 优缺点 …

OBJECTIVE To aid the interpretation of the trends in prostate cancer mortality, which
declined in the UK in the early 1990s for unknown reasons, by investigating prostate cancer …

Background: Informed consent is regarded as a contract between autonomous and equal
parties and requires the elements of information disclosure, understanding, voluntariness …

INTRODUCTION: Strategies to improve recruitment to RCTs (randomised controlled trials)
are limited. The ProtecT (Prostate testing for cancer and Treatment) study successfully …