Dedication.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Table of Contents.- Basic Premise.- Case 1. A "good" question.- Case 2. A "bad" question.- Case 3. Why were 116 patients excluded?.- Case 4. Sometimes a good question evolves from a bad one.- Case 5. What went wrong?.- Case 6. Check your facts.- Case 7. All is not lost.- Case 8. An important lesson.- Case 9. A lucky escape.- Case 10. A letter or a full paper.- Case 11. This could be serious. Be prepared.- Case 12. Not correct procedure.- Case 13. A lesson well learned.- Case 14. Taking out a patent. Should you or should you not?.- Case 15. Taking out a patent. Watch out.- Case 16. A laboratory lesson.- Case 17. Before you start any research.- Case 18. An offer of employment. What to look for.- Case 19. What should you do?.- Case 20. Who to trust.- Case 21. Elementary.- Case 22. Never give up.- Case 23. How long should a study go on?.- Case 24. What to do.- Case 25. To what journal should you send your work?.- Case 26. A drug sponsored trial.- Case 27. The difference between research and quality assurance/improvement.- Case 28. Stopping a clinical study.- Case 29. Controversy.- Case 30. The P Value.- Case 31. How many authors?.- Case 32. If you injure your patient.- Case 33. Multicenter trials.- Case 34. Unprofessional behavior.- Case 35. Tips on how to get the Institutional Review Board (IRB) submission completed and passed.- Case 36. How to perform and report the result of a survey.- Case 37. Validity of the cricoid pressure (Sellick's maneuver.- Case 38. Another unprofessional behavior.- Case 39. A data set.- Case 40. Taking over an ongoing clinical trial.- Case 41. Should you do a pilot study in this proposed trial?.- Case 42. An inconclusive result (negative result). What to do.- Case 43. Retrospective studies. What to watch out for.- Case 44. Plagiarism.- Case 45. Pediatric research.- Case 46. Your paper is rejected. What to do.- Case 47. You disagree with a conclusion of a published article.- Case 48. Is this a good study?.- Case 49. Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.- Case 50. Is the title of a paper or grant important?.- Case 51. Sampling and subjects.- Case 52. What not to do if you are a mentor.- Case 53. Be aware.- Case 54. A statistical impasse.- Case 55. A bad outcome.- Case 56. A case report.- Case 57. Are case reports becoming extinct.- Case 58. A clinical pharmacology study.- Case 59. Watch out.- Case 60. A new equipment.- Case 61. Those that ignore the past.- Case 62. What are the safety data for this formulation?.- Case 63. This is a test to see what you have learned.- Review of the clinical research process. From the beginning to the end.- The future of clinical research.- Summary of Pearls.
