Modern clinical epidemiology

Author: Lin Guo Wei
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Publish Date: 2004-02-12
Features: "Modern Clinical Epidemiology" is essentially a methodology for clinical research design and evaluation. This book focuses on introducing the concepts of clinical research design, the evaluation of diagnostic tests, the assessment of clinical efficacy and prognosis, the methods of mass surveys and sampling surveys, the investigation of etiology and risk factors, the identification and control of bias in clinical research, methods of literature review, the writing of research reports and papers, the application of health economics and medical sociology in clinical medicine, the application of statistical analysis and computer statistical software in clinical research, and more. At the end of the book, there are case discussions for beginners to apply theory to practice. This book is a rewritten version based on the "Lecture Notes on Clinical Epidemiology" compiled by Shanghai Medical University in 1988. The lecture notes have been used by clinical graduate students and seven-year medical students at Shanghai Medical University for nearly a decade, enjoying great popularity among students and having been reprinted many times. In recent years, it has also served as the textbook for national continuing education short-term training courses in clinical epidemiology and standardized training for resident physicians. This book has been revised based on over a decade of teaching experience, with significant new content added to make the curriculum more comprehensive. The authors are all senior teachers from the Clinical Epidemiology Training Center of Shanghai Medical University, many of whom have obtained master's degrees in clinical epidemiology from international clinical epidemiology training centers in the United States, Canada, and Australia.