Medical Sciences 4930F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Epidemiological Method, Pubmed
22 Apr 2019
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List major steps in application of epidemiological methods: case definition that is valid and reliable. List and calculate measures of case definition validity: sensitivity, specificity. List and calculate major measures of disease occurrence: List and define major observational research designs: case-control, cohort. Instead, i will give you the technical foundation to understand the studies that identified risk, protective and prognostic factors: credible websites (e. g. diabetes associations) Survey of risk and protective factors for dm ii. Worried about the exam? you are used to in lab sciences. Epidemiology ranges from simple, intuitive and logical to extremely complex. I present a lot of numbers (hey - it"s science!) But modified scientific method compared to what. Try to understand the concepts why we do these calculations, what they mean. Distribution = occurrence by characteristics of person (e. g. sex, age, smoker), place and time.
