To Your Health —— How to Understand What Research Tells Us about Risk

----- 健康问题：理解健康风险问题

ISBN: 9780195178708 出版年：2005 页码：289 Kraemer, Helena Chmura Lowe,, Karen Kraemer Kupfer, David J M D Oxford University Press

PART I: THE BASICS OF RISK 1. What is risk? 2. What is a risk factor? 3. Are all risk factors equal? Types of risk factors 4. How do we know if something is an important risk factor? Statistical and clinical significance 5. How do risk factors work together? Moderators, mediators, and other "Inter-actions" PART II: HOW TO RECOGNIZE GOOD AND BAD RESEARCH 6. Who was in the study and why does that matter? Sampling 7. What's the difference between a risk factor and a cause? Research design 8. What else should we pay attention to? Reliability and validity of measurements and diagnoses PART III: CUTTING EDGE APPROACHES 9. How strong is the risk factor? Potency 10. How do we do a moderator-mediator analysis? 11. How do we use multiple risk factors? ROC tree methods PART IV: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? 12. Where are we now? 13. Making the best of good studies 14. Hope for the future