Annual Congress Berlin 2008

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PG10 - Getting it right – planning, realising, analysing and publishing research projects

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: C. Kuehni (Bern, Switzerland), S. Turner (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
Aims: Many original and scientifically interesting research projects suffer from common methodological, statistical and design problems, which are well known and could be easily avoided. This postgraduate course will outline a number of the most important pitfalls in all stages of respiratory research (planning, realisation, analysis and publication) and for various research fields (clinical, epidemiological and physiological).
The main aim is to highlight common pitfalls in respiratory research and learn how to avoid them. The four speakers will use very interactive approaches to discuss problems related to:
-planning and conducting epidemiological and clinical research;
-planning and conducting physiological and experimental research;
-statistical analysis and interpretation of results;
-writing up and publishing results.

Common pitfalls in planning and conducting epidemiological and clinical research T. Frischer (Vienna, Austria)
Common pitfalls in planning, conducting and interpreting physiological research J. Stocks (London, United Kingdom)
Modern approaches to statistical analysis and interpretation of results J. Sterne (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Pitfalls in writing up and publishing results P. J. Sterk (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)