Clinical Epidemiology: The EssentialsLippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005 - 252 Seiten This introduction to epidemiology helps medical, nursing, and pharmacy students develop a system to observe and assess outcomes in similar patient types, and then apply this knowledge of outcomes to improve future patient care. The Fourth Edition has been redesigned to enhance understanding with new illustrations, pedagogical tools, examples, and summary boxes. According to a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, "This is one of the few books truly written for students of clinical epidemiology...I've used it in the past and would do so in the future. The book is comprehensive and takes a practical approach to explaining important topics." |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR CLINICAL | 2 |
Chance | 8 |
Abnormality | 17 |
Variation Resulting from Biologic Differences | 23 |
Diagnosis | 35 |
ESTABLISHING SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY | 42 |
LIKELIHOOD RATIOS | 49 |
ALTERNATIVES TO RANDOMIZED TRIALS | 139 |
Prevention | 145 |
Prevention | 147 |
SCREENING TESTS IN PREVENTIVE CARE | 151 |
POSSIBLE ADVERSE EFFECTS FROM | 159 |
Chance | 169 |
HOW MANY STUDY PATIENTS ARE ENOUGH? | 176 |
DESCRIBING ASSOCIATIONS | 182 |
Frequency | 59 |
CHAPTER 4 | 60 |
Sampling | 67 |
Looking Forward | 75 |
Looking Backward | 91 |
AN ESTIMATE OF RELATIVE | 98 |
Prognosis | 105 |
Survival Curves That Include Other Information | 112 |
Treatment | 125 |
Patients Do Not Have the Disease Under Study | 134 |
Cause | 187 |
CONCEPTS OF CAUSE | 188 |
ESTABLISHING CAUSE 191 When Metaanalyses and Large Trials | 193 |
Systematic Reviews | 205 |
Knowledge Management | 221 |
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS 206 JOURNALS | 227 |
Appendix AAnswers to Review Questions | 233 |
Appendix BAdditional Readings | 241 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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