Translational Surgery covers the principles of evidence-based medicine and applies these principles to the design of translational investigations. The reader will come to fully understand important concepts including case-control studies, prospective cohort studies, randomized trials, and reliability studies. Investigators will benefit from greater confidence in their ability to initiate and execute their own investigations, avoid common pitfalls in surgical research, and know what is needed for collaboration. Further, this title is an indispensable tool in grant writing and funding efforts. The practical, straightforward approach helps the translational research navigate challenging considerations in study design and implementation. The book provides valuable discussions of the critical appraisal of published studies in surgery, allowing the reader to learn how to evaluate the quality of such studies. Thus, they will improve at measuring outcomes; making effective use of all types of evidence in patient care. In short, this practical guidebook will be of interest to every surgeon or surgical researcher who has ever had a good clinical idea, but not the knowledge of how to test it.

Translational Radiation Oncology covers the principles of evidence-based medicine and applies them to the design of translational research. The book provides valuable discussions on the critical appraisal of published studies and recent developments in radiation oncology, allowing readers to learn how to evaluate the quality of such studies with respect to measuring outcomes and make effective use of all types of evidence. By reading this book, researchers have access to a practical approach to help them navigate challenging considerations in study design and implementation. It is a valuable resource for researchers, oncologists and members of biomedical field who want to understand more about translational research applied to the field of radiation oncology. Translational medicine serves as an indispensable tool in grant writing and funding efforts, so understanding how to apply its principles to research is necessary to guarantee that results will be impactful to patients.

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Translational Sports Medicine covers the principles of evidence-based medicine and applies these principles to the design of translational investigations. This title is an indispensable tool in grant writing and funding efforts with its practical, straightforward approach that will help aspiring investigators navigate challenging considerations in study design and implementation. It provides valuable discussions of the critical appraisal of published studies in translational sports medicine, allowing the reader to learn how to evaluate the quality of such studies with respect to measuring outcomes and to make effective use of all types of evidence in patient care. In short, this practical guidebook will be of interest to every medical researcher or sports medicine clinician who has ever had a good clinical idea but not the knowledge of how to test it. Readers will come to fully understand important concepts, including case-control study, prospective cohort study, randomized trial and reliability study. Medical researchers will benefit from greater confidence in their ability to initiate and execute their own investigations, avoid common pitfalls in translational sports medicine, and know what is needed in collaboration.

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Para los estudiantes de medicina, el paso del aula a la clinica representa una importante transicion educativa, llena de nuevas y ricas oportunidades de aprendizaje y desafios. Guia para las rotaciones clinicas. Procedimientos y destrezas es una obra compacta, facil de usar que sirve como recurso practico para ayudarles a aprender de forma eficiente las destrezas clinicas necesarias para la atencion diaria de los pacientes. Con instrucciones concisas paso a paso, asi como ilustraciones complementarias, se detalla brevemente la informacion necesaria para una referencia rapida, y se acompana de ideas y ejemplos profesionales que destacan la aplicacion efectiva. La obra se divide en siete secciones: la primera cubre anamnesis, exploracion fisica, notas de evolucion, ingreso, remision a otras especialidades o alta hospitalaria, entre otras cuestiones iniciales. La segunda seccion se centra en la presentacion oral de los casos clinicos o de una nota de evolucion, con capitulos organizados por especialidades. La tercera seccion se enfoca en el expediente medico electronico, y la cuarta inicia con los procedimientos basicos requeridos en las diferentes rotaciones clinicas. Las dos siguientes secciones abordan destrezas de comunicacion y como responder a preguntas clinicas. En la ultima seccion se incluyen referencias rapidas con datos de consulta frecuente como signos vitales, ritmos cardiacos comunes, parametros cardiopulmonares, evaluacion del estado hidrico, y cifras y valores normales de laboratorio, entre otros.