How to develop and report good research questions
Developing and writing protocols • How to write and publish a study protocol: overview • Clinical trial protocols: how to write and publish them • How to write a research protocol for a grant application • Good medical writing • Choosing and citing references
• Developing a good research question • Reporting the research question in your paper
How to do ethical research
Choosing the best study design • Study design
• Ethical considerations in research • History of research ethics • Institutional review board CIRB) and informed consent • Ethics aspects of study methods
• Randomized Blinded Trials • Studies of medical tests • Enhancing causal inference • The methods: matching study designs to research questions • Subjects and variables • Sample size and power • Statistics • Questionnaires and qualitative research
• Data and safety monitoring • Principles of research ethics • Ethics in "big data" research • Research in resource-poor environments
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