Translational Research and Clinical Practice: Basic Tools for Medical Decision Making and Self-Learning Paperback – November 17, 2010
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Waldo E. Nelson Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Paperback: 152 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (November 17, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0199746443
- ISBN-13: 978-0199746446
- Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 6 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #842,038 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
First off, I fully appreciate that trying to explain/summarize biostatistics and research methods is a difficult job. It's a tough topic to cover, but I give no leniency to this book's inability to accomplish its goals.
The book starts off well enough, explaining the basics involved in translational research and evidence based medical practice. However a few pages in, the book starts oversimplifying concepts, resulting in downstream misunderstanding. A perfect example in this book, is the explanation of p-values. This is a concept that is INTEGRAL to translational research, and the only attention it receives in the book is mere 22 lines of moderate-sized font, that actually explains very little. I'm not looking for definitions, I don't think anyone reading this book is. I can very easily Google/Wiki any of these concepts if I wanted a simple definition. I'm reading this book in search of understanding/explanation. This book gives the "what" but never provides the "why" or "how". Even the "simple examples" the book uses are not explained fully; in a subject where every detail matters, this book sure does leave a lot of the important ones out. Again, this is probably done with the intention of creating a minimalistic guide to the subject; eliminating as many potential pages as possible.
The other big issue with this book is the language. It says on THE COVER, "Basic Tools for Medical Decision Making...". Yet the language of the book is anything but basic. It is unnecessarily complicated; I don't know how else to put this. Reading a sentence takes 2-3 tries, not because I'm stupid (I might be, who knows?), but because halfway through a sentence, you've forgotten the point trying to be made.
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