Lesaffre / Feine / Leroux Statistical and Methodological Aspects of Oral Health Research

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-74412-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Diabetes in Practice Series

Statistical and Methodological Aspects of Oral HealthResearch provides oral health researchers with an overview ofthe methodological aspects that are important in planning,conducting and analyzing their research projects whilst alsoproviding biostatisticians with an idea of the statistical problemsthat arise when tackling oral health research questions.
This collection presents critical reflections on oral healthresearch and offers advice on practical aspects of setting upresearch whilst introducing the reader to basic as well as advancedstatistical methodology.
Features:
* An introduction to research methodology and an exposition ofthe state of the art.
* A variety of examples from oral health research.
* Contributions from well-known oral health researchers,epidemiologists and biostatisticians, all of whom have richexperience in this area.
* Recent developments in statistical methodology prompted by avariety of dental applications.
Presenting both an introduction to research methodology and anexposition of the latest advances in oral health research, thisbook will appeal both beginning and experienced oral healthresearchers as well as biostatisticians and epidemiologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lesaffre, Emmanuel

Feine, Jocelyne

Leroux, Brian

Declerck, Dominique

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors.
Preface.
Part I.
1 Do We Need to Improve Oral Health Research? (DominiqueDeclerck and Emmanuel Lesaffre).
2 Grading Evidence with a Focus on Etiology, Surrogates, andClinical Devices (Philippe Hujoel).
3 The Effective use of Research Data for Evidence-Based OralHealth Care (Ian Needleman and Helen Worthington).
Part II.
4 Planning a Research Project (Timothy A. DeRouen and DonaldE. Mercante).
5 How to Carry out Successful Clinical Studies: Lessons fromProject Management (Jocelyne S. Feine, Stephanie D. Wollin andFaahim Rashid).
6 Design and Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials in OralHealth (Brian Leroux and Emmanuel Lesaffre).
7 Epidemiological Oral Health Studies: Aspects of Design andAnalysis (Jimmy Steele and Mark Pearce).
8 Qualitative Research (Christophe Bedos, Pierre Pluye,Christine Loignon and Alissa Levine).
9 Data Validity and Quality (Finbarr Allen and JimmySteele).
Part III.
10 Start with the Basics (Manal A. Awad, Nico Nagelkerke andEmmanuel Lesaffre).
11 Statistical Methods for Studying Associations BetweenVariables (Brian G. Leroux).
12 Assessing Accuracy of Oral Health Diagnostic Tests (ToddA. Alonzo and Peter J. Giannini).
Part IV.
13 Analysis of Correlated Responses (Melissa D.Begg).
14 Missing Data and Informative Cluster Sizes (Stuart A.Gansky and John M. Neuhaus).
15 Failure Time Analysis (Thomas A. Gerds, Vibeke Qvist,J¨org R. Strub, Christian B. Pipper, Thomas H. Scheike andNiels Keiding).
16 Misclassification and Measurement Error in Oral Health(Helmut K¨uchenhoff).
17 Statistical Genetics (Amy D. Anderson).
18 The Bayesian Approach (Emmanuel Lesaffre, ArnocaronstKom´arek and Alejandro Jara).
Part V.
19 Examples from Oral Health Epidemiology: The Signal Tandmobieland Smile for Life studies (Dominique Declerck, EmmanuelLesaffre, Roos Leroy and Jackie Vanobbergen).
20 Subantimicrobial-dose Doxycycline Effects on Alveolar BoneLoss in Postmenopausal Women: Example of a Randomized ControlledClinical Trial (Julie A. Stoner and Jeffrey B. Payne).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Emmanuel Lesaffre, Interuniversity Institute forBiostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Catholic UniversityLeuven, Belgium. and University Hasselt, Belgium; Department ofBiostatistics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Jocelyne Feine, Oral Health and Society Research Unit,Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
Brian Leroux,Departments of Biostatistics and of DentalPublic Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Dominique Declerck, School for Dentistry, CatholicUniversity Leuven, Belgium.