Full Description
This text defines clinical epidemiology in terms of the principles and methods of research used to evaluate factors that affect the outcome of illness. It emphasizes the evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, demonstrates various ways of structuring observations on patient groups, and discusses the nature and strength ofinferences that can be drawn from those observations.
Contents
1. Clinical Epidemiologyand Screening Tests: Measuring Their Ability to Predict Adverse Outcome of Illness; 3. Diagnostic and Screening Tests: Measuring Their Role in Improving the Outcome of Illness; 4. Therapeutic Efficacy: Randomized Controlled Trials; 5. Therapeutic Efficacy: Nonrandomized Studies; 6. Therapeutic Safety; 7. Natural History of Illness; Appendix: Some Methodologic Tools Useful in the Planning and Analysis of Clinical Epidemiologic Research; Index
