PUBLIC HEALTH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY

Implementation Science

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Figure 17-1. National immunization survey of teens, United States, 2006 to 2013. ACIP, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; HPV, human papillomavirus; MenACYW, meningococcal conjugate; Tdap, tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid,…

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Clinical Trials

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  Collecting Evidence for Medical Practice   Clinical Trials 7    Valerie L. Durkalski-Mauldin and Kathleen T. Brady HEALTH SCENARIO Stroke is a potentially debilitating medical event that affects approximately 800,000 people in…

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Case-Control Studies

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Figure 9-1. Illustration of the design of a case-control study. Shaded areas represent exposed persons, and unshaded areas represent unexposed persons.  The general design of a case-control study shown in…

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Assessing Evidence

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Figure 13-1. Flow diagram of article screening process for Joint National Committee 8 review of pharmacologic therapy of hypertension at specific blood pressure levels to improve outcomes. (Data from James…

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Planning a Systematic Review

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•  Answer the same key question(s) of interest •  Provide appropriate and timely information •  Offer feasible and reasonable approaches to answering the key question(s), solving a similar problem, or meeting specific needs…

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Mostly About Statistics

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and Jordan Smoller2 (1) Department of Epidemiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA (2) Department of Psychiatry and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA…

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Mostly About Epidemiology

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and Jordan Smoller2 (1) Department of Epidemiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA (2) Department of Psychiatry and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA…

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