Designing Clinical Research by 
Measuring health : a guide to rating scales and questionnaires by 
Asking questions : the definitive guide to questionnaire design : for market research, political polls, and social and health questionnaires by
Instruments for clinical health-care research by 
Design, evaluation, and analysis of questionnaires for survey research by 
Research Methods in Health by Ebooks may be searched by the book title in the Library Classic Catalog or in Library Search. The key ebook vendors and databases with Tulane licenses which include health science topics are listed below.
Suggested Medical Subjects for a Catalog Search:
Health Status Indicators
Data Collection--methods
Quality of Life
Relative Value Scales
Research Design
Sociometric Techniques
Questionnaires
Eliminating Health Disparities: Measurement and Data Needs / Michele Ver Ploeg
Handbook of psychiatric measures / American Psychiatric Association. Task Force for the Handbook of Psychiatric Measures.
Health Research Design and methodology / Eucharia Nnadi Okolo
Improving survey questions : design and evaluation / Floyd J. Fowler, Jr.
Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1995.
Instruments for clinical health-care research / Marilyn Frank-Stromborg, Sharon J. Olsen
Introduction to Survey Quality / Paul P. Biemer
Introduction to Survey Sampling / Graham Kalton
Methods in social epidemiology / J. Michael Oakes
Sampling of populations: methods and applications / Paul S. Levy
Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire / Jean M. Converse
Survey research methods / Floyd J. Fowler, Jr. Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2009.
The use of psychological testing for treatment planning and outcomes assessment / Mark E. Maruish
Howard Tilton Library - Reference Books - Uptown Campus
Test critiques. / Test Corporation of America
Tests in Print: An index to tests, test reviews, and the literature on specific tests.
Tests: a comprehensive reference for assessments in psychology, education, and business / Richard C. Sweetland, Daniel J. Keyser.
Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD by 
Probability, Statistics and Modelling in Public Health by 
Handbook of Psychiatric Measures by Find Books
Use the Library Catalog to locate both e-books and printed books.
Browse the Matas Library stacks using NLM Classification. Books in the other Tulane Libraries are shelved by the LC classification system.
Need a book we don't have? Registered Matas users may request that the Matas Library purchase a copy of recently published book for the collection, or request from another library using our free Interlibrary Loan Service.
Use the NLM Catalog, LocatorPlus, to identify health science and biomedical titles outside of our collection.
E-Books
Retrieve results for online books in the library catalog by filtering by Online Resources.
Online book providers in the health sciences.
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Examples of LC Subject Terms and Medical (MeSH) terminology:
LC Subject(s):
Health surveys.
Social surveys.
Health status indicators --Measurement.
Medical Subject(s):
Health Surveys.
Health Status Indicators.
Pain Measurement.
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales.
Psychological Tests.
Questionnaires.
Research --methods.
Research Design.
Clinical Protocols.
Evaluation Studies.
Data Collection.
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