The Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research is an evidence-based, succinct, and easy-to-use reference for the full range of clinical and healthcare research topics. Providing a wide breadth of essential knowledge, this comprehensive text takes the researcher through the steps from general good clinical practice in healthcare research to the process and management of research.This handbook includes clear instructions on the legislative and practical requirements of commissioning, conducting, analysing, and reporting research for those in clinical or healthcare practice, education, or training. Written with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) education in mind, it includes valuable information needed for the accredited certificates and diploma-level benchmark exams now commonly required by employers. This is a definitive text for all clinical and healthcare researchstudents, as well as graduates with an interest in clinical and healthcare research.

1 Research - How and Why; 2 Navigating Research Methods: Basic concepts in biostatistics and epidemiology; 3 Navigating Research Methods: Quantitative and clinical / epidemiological methods; 4 Navigating Research Methods: Qualitative methods; 5 Navigating Research Methods: Evidence Based Medicine (EBM); 6 Navigating Research Methods: Critical ap-praisal; 7 Navigating Research Methods: Clinical Audit; 8 Setting the scene and ICH-GCP in clinical and healthcare research; 9 Informed consent in a research setting; 10 Ethics of clinical and healthcare research: general considerations, Mental Capacity Act, Human Tissue Act; 11 Role and Responsibilities: Investigators and Research Team; 12 Role and Responsibilities: Sponsor; 13 Monitoring; 14 Clinical Trial Design; 15 Clinical Trial Protocols: Study Protocol; 16 Data Capture Tools: Case Report Form (CRF); 17 Clinical Trial Supplies: IMPs; 18 IMP Accountability; 19 Safety Reporting; 20 Data management; 21 Research Project Management; 22 Essential Documents; 23 Archiving; 24 Audits and Inspections; 25 Fraud and Misconduct; 26 Authorship; 27 Publication process; 28 Start-up toolkit: from funding an idea, through implementation, to achieving an impact