ISBN 9780195178708 | 019517870X Textbooks - "To Your Health How to Understand What Research Tells Us about Risk" by David J Kupfer Helena Chmura Kraemer Karen Kraemer Lowe KRAEMER Karen Kraemer Lowe David J Kupfer MD Helena Chmura Lowe Karen Kraemer MD

Authors: David J. Kupfer - Helena Chmura Kraemer - Karen Kraemer Lowe - KRAEMER - Karen Kraemer Low…
ISBN 10: 019517870X
ISBN 13: 9780195178708
Release: March 24, 2005
Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
List Price: $49.95
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Tags: Health, Mind & Body, General,

Book Description:
The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, others accepted as "scientific truth" for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true. Physicians are faced with trying to make sense of those conflicting or questionable results in the scientific literature in order to guide their patients to the best possible decisions. The situation is not much easier for scientists who may waste years of their productive life, and considerable resources, basing their research efforts on what prove to be misleading earlier research findings. What this book does is to present, in non "academese" and with many examples from the general media and scientific journals, a guide to a critical reading of research reports, which, in turn, serves as a guide to researchers as to which approaches are likely to be regarded with raised eyebrows, and what they need to do to generate results that will be taken seriously. This stimulating and helpful book was written for informed consumers and physicians as well as for scientists evaluating the risk research literature or contemplating projects on risk research.

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