To help prepare professional pharmacy students to practice evidence-based medicine, this textbook outlines the fundamentals of scientific research, focusing on the principles of clinical research, study design, and statistical analysis and methods for evaluating pharmacy literature. In 21 chapters, pharmacy and other specialists from the US explain the scientific approach to research and practice, ethical considerations, randomized controlled trials, cohort and case-control studies, other observational studies, case reports and case series, measurement and descriptive analysis, data interpretation and basic statistical concepts, bivariate analysis and comparing groups, simple and multiple linear regression, logistic regression and survival analysis, sample size and power analysis, systematic review and meta-analysis, and drug literature evaluation, including clinical literature, randomized controlled trials, observational studies, applying drug literature to patient care, and the format and characteristics of journal clubs. Online access to student and instructor resources is included. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)