Epidemiology & Statistics Material to be Covered

Epidemiology & Statistics in
Clinical Practice

Material to be covered

The role of epidemiology in influencing health

Basic definitions; rates and standardisation; prevalence, incidence and mortality; epidemiology and clinical practice.

Routine sources of information

The importance of case definitions, case ascertainment and data collection processes when interpreting morbidity and mortality data from HMSO, WHO or the NHS.

Identifying and measuring risk

Comparing risk in different populations; exposure and outcomes; measures of risk; methodological considerations.

Changing health in populations - screening and population interventions

Justifying screening procedures and criteria for screening, with clinical examples.

An introduction to health services research

Avaliable methodologies; health economics; measuring outcomes; target setting; quantitative and qualitative analysis.

From research to practice

The NHS Research and Development strategy and knowledge based health services; evidence based medicine; critical appraisal; information systems and databases in the NHS.

Statistical analyses in clinical research

Measures of central tendency and descriptive statistics; parametric and non-parametric statistics; multifactorial designs and statistics; correlation matrices and regression analyses; other applied statistics.

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