Clinical Trials
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…
PUBLIC HEALTH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY
Implementation Science
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,…
Case-Control Studies
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…
Social Determinants of Health
Figure 5-1. Linear relationship between job grade and mortality. CHD, congestive heart disease. (Reproduced with permission from Marmot MG, Rose G, Shipley M, Hamilton PJ. Employment grade and coronary heart…
Assessing Evidence
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…
Comparative Effectiveness
Summarizing Evidence for Medical Practice Comparative Effectiveness 11 Annie N. Simpson and Kit N. Simpson HEALTH SCENARIO Dr. Block was just told by his nurse that Mr. Green had been…
Planning a Systematic Review
• 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…
Mostly About Statistics
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…
Mostly About Epidemiology
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…
Mostly About Genetic Epidemiology
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…
