Clinical epidemiology

Author: Wu Qinghua
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Teaches clinical medical students how to apply the basic principles and methods of modern epidemiology and modern statistics to explore the design, measurement, and evaluation methods in clinical practice and scientific research. This book is based on a solid foundation in the basic and clinical medicine of various diseases, as well as familiarity with the general principles of epidemiology and medical statistics. The background, scope, content, and methods of clinical epidemiology, the determination of normal and abnormal boundaries in clinical measurement, etiology and etiological derivation, case-control study methods, prospective study methods, diagnostic tests and their evaluation methods, treatment trials and their evaluation methods, decision analysis for clinical diagnosis and treatment, an overview of molecular epidemiology, an overview of evidence-based medicine, literature review methods, and research design.