ENH 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Epi Info, Too Short, Common Source
13 Mar 2018
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Counts and rates must be organized by person, place & time. Allows us to id and show epidemiologically relevant patterns. Need the following info for each case: Id/personal info (name, dob, contact) all con dential. Demographic (age, gender, occupation, geo location) used to describe at risk pop"n. Clinical (onset, symptoms, severity, test results/lab ndings) Risk factors (food history, travel, contact w/ animals, hospital visits) Data collected needs to be organized in line listing . Line listing incl: case id #, components of case de nition. Freq distributions of demographic, clinical and risk factor characteristics of cases. Ideas rates will calc by age (age speci c rates) in all investigations. Deserves primary attention, strongest determinate or mobility & mortality. Condition of host and susceptibility to disease. Di ering intensities of exposure to causative agents. Need to distinguish b/w place of onset, exposure, case id. Can be expressed as count or rates.
