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Translational research is essential to the advancement of medicine. This Cardiology-specific instructional guide to translational medical research serves as a practical, step-by-step roadmap for taking a biomedical device, potential therapeutic agent, or research question from idea through demonstrated clinical benefit. Fundamentally, the volume aims to help bridge the gap between current research and practice. Written by a team of expert medical, biomedical engineering, and clinical research experts in Cardiology, this volume provides a clear process for understanding, designing, executing, and analyzing clinical and translational research Focusing on translational cardiovascular research, this volume covers the principles of evidence-based medicine and applies these principles to the design of translational investigationsProvides a practical, straightforward approach that will help the aspiring cardiovascular researchers navigate challenging considerations in study design and implementationDetails valuable discussions of the critical appraisal of published studies in cardiology, allowing the reader to learn how to evaluate the quality of such studies with respect to measuring outcomes and to make effective use of all types of evidence in patient care
