This self-instructional manual on the interpretation and use of epidemiologic data deals with the basic concepts and skills needed for the appraisal of published reports or one's own findings. Applications in clinical medicine, public health, community medicine, and research are all taken into consideration. Making Sense of Data is designed as a workbook of short exercises and instructional self-tests that introduce fundamental approaches and procedures in data interpretation and develop competency in working with epidemiologic tools. Basic concepts are presented in the first section, which…mehr
This self-instructional manual on the interpretation and use of epidemiologic data deals with the basic concepts and skills needed for the appraisal of published reports or one's own findings. Applications in clinical medicine, public health, community medicine, and research are all taken into consideration. Making Sense of Data is designed as a workbook of short exercises and instructional self-tests that introduce fundamental approaches and procedures in data interpretation and develop competency in working with epidemiologic tools. Basic concepts are presented in the first section, which also demonstrates the step-by-step assessment of data. The next section discusses rates and other simple measures, and the third shows how to judge their accuracy. Section IV and V deal with more complex issues of associations between variables and the appraisal of cause-effect relationships. Section VI deals with meta-analysis (the critical review and integration of the findings from separate studies) and section VII with the questions to be asked before deciding to apply study results in practice. Numerous changes have been made in this edition, including the addition of a section on the practical application of epidemiological findings, discussions of new topics (Cox proportional hazards regression, qualitative studies, ROC curves), and fresh examples.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
* Introduction * The aim of the book * How to use the book * A. Basic Concepts and Procedures * A1: Introduction * A2: Determining what the facts are, Summarizing the facts * A3: Absolute and relative differences * A4: Diagrams * A5: Seeking explanations for the facts, Testing explanations * A6: The basic scientific process, Rates * A7: Rates (continued), Inspecting a two-dimensional table * A8: Inspecting a two-dimensional table (continued) * A9: Inspecting a two-dimensional table (continued), Associations * A10: Associations (continued), Confounding * A11: Confounding (continued), Effect modification * A12: Refinement, skeleton tables, Elaborating an association * A13: Modifying and confounding effects * A14: Elaborating an association (continued) * A15: The use of rates, Causal explanations, Testing causal explanations * A16: Testing causal explanations (continued, Basic procedure for appraisal of data, What are the facts? What are the possible explanations? What additional information is required? * A17: Uses of epidemiological data * A18: Test yourself (A) * B. Rates and Other Measures * B1: Introduction, What is a rate? Prevalence rates * B2: Prevalence rates (continued) * B3: Questions about a rate, What kind of rate is it? Of what is it a rate? To what population or group does the rate refer? How was the information obtained? * B4: Sources of bias, Confidence interval, Validity, Qualitative studies * B5: Use of prevalence data, Incidence rates * B6: Incidence rates (continued) * B7: Bias in incidence studies * B8: Uses of incidence rates * B9: Estimating the individual's chances, Time to event (survival time) * B10: Estimating the individual's chances (continued), Other rates, What are the odds? * B11: Other rates (continued), Odds ratio * B12: Other measures * B13: Indirect standardization * B14: Indirect standardization (continued), Direct standardization * B15: The use of standardized rates * B16: Test yourself (B) * C. How Good Are the Measures? * C1: Introduction * C2: Validity of a measure, Sensitivity and specificity * C3: Misclassification * C4: Differential misclassification * C5: Effects of misclassification * C6: Effects of misclassification (continued) * C7: Other ways of appraising validity, Reliability * C8: Appraisal of reliability * C9: Appraisal of reliability (continued), Regression towards the mean, Taking account of validity and reliability, Screening tests * C10: Appraisal of a screening test * C11: Appraisal of a screening test (continued) * C12: Appraisal of diagnostic tests, ROC curves, The meaning of "normal" * C13: Test yourself (C) * D. Making Sense of Associations * D1: Introduction * D2: Explanations for an association * D3: Effects of misclassification, Statistical significance * D4: Statistical significance (continued) * D5: Confounding effects * D6: Confounding effects (continued) * D7: Multivariate analysis * D8: Explanations for the findings, Risk factors and risk markers, Appraising a risk marker, Uses of the findings * D9: Risk factors and risk markers (continued), Measures of the strength of an association * D10: Measures of strength * D11: Measures of strength (continued), Matched samples * D12: Synergism * D13: Appraising stratified data, Making sense of multivariate analysis * D14: Multiple logistic regression * D15: Multiple logistic regression (continued) * D16: Proportional hazards regression * D17: Multiple linear regression * D18: Test yourself (D) * E. Causes and Effects * E1: Introduction, Kinds of Study * E2: Appraising the results of a cross-sectional study * E3: Appraising the results of a case-control study * E4: Appraising the results of a cohort study * E5: Appraising the results of a group-based study * E6: Appraising the results of an experiment * E7: Appraising the results of a quasi-experiment * E8: Artifact, confounding or cause? * E9: Coping with confounding, Delving into causes * E10: Evidence for a causal relationship * E11: Evidence for a causal relationship (continued), The impact of a causal factor * E12: The attributable fraction * E13: Prevented and preventable fractions * E14: Test yourself (E) * F. Meta-Analysis: Putting It All Together * F1: Introduction * F2: The scope of meta-analysis * F3: Measures used in meta-analysis * F4: Measures used in meta-analysis (continued), Basic information * F5: Finding the studies * F6: Selecting studies * F7: The quality of the studies, Extracting the findings, Apples and oranges * F8: Appraising combinability, Explaining heterogeneity * F9: Explaining heterogeneity (continued) * F10: Effect modification * F11: Using the results, Evaluating a meta-analysis * F12: Test yourself (F) * G. Putting Study Findings to Use * G1: Introduction * G2: Are the results accurately known * G3: Validity of the findings * G4: Relevance of the findings * G5: Expected effects * G6: Feasibility and cost * G7: Test yourself (G) * References * Index
* Introduction * The aim of the book * How to use the book * A. Basic Concepts and Procedures * A1: Introduction * A2: Determining what the facts are, Summarizing the facts * A3: Absolute and relative differences * A4: Diagrams * A5: Seeking explanations for the facts, Testing explanations * A6: The basic scientific process, Rates * A7: Rates (continued), Inspecting a two-dimensional table * A8: Inspecting a two-dimensional table (continued) * A9: Inspecting a two-dimensional table (continued), Associations * A10: Associations (continued), Confounding * A11: Confounding (continued), Effect modification * A12: Refinement, skeleton tables, Elaborating an association * A13: Modifying and confounding effects * A14: Elaborating an association (continued) * A15: The use of rates, Causal explanations, Testing causal explanations * A16: Testing causal explanations (continued, Basic procedure for appraisal of data, What are the facts? What are the possible explanations? What additional information is required? * A17: Uses of epidemiological data * A18: Test yourself (A) * B. Rates and Other Measures * B1: Introduction, What is a rate? Prevalence rates * B2: Prevalence rates (continued) * B3: Questions about a rate, What kind of rate is it? Of what is it a rate? To what population or group does the rate refer? How was the information obtained? * B4: Sources of bias, Confidence interval, Validity, Qualitative studies * B5: Use of prevalence data, Incidence rates * B6: Incidence rates (continued) * B7: Bias in incidence studies * B8: Uses of incidence rates * B9: Estimating the individual's chances, Time to event (survival time) * B10: Estimating the individual's chances (continued), Other rates, What are the odds? * B11: Other rates (continued), Odds ratio * B12: Other measures * B13: Indirect standardization * B14: Indirect standardization (continued), Direct standardization * B15: The use of standardized rates * B16: Test yourself (B) * C. How Good Are the Measures? * C1: Introduction * C2: Validity of a measure, Sensitivity and specificity * C3: Misclassification * C4: Differential misclassification * C5: Effects of misclassification * C6: Effects of misclassification (continued) * C7: Other ways of appraising validity, Reliability * C8: Appraisal of reliability * C9: Appraisal of reliability (continued), Regression towards the mean, Taking account of validity and reliability, Screening tests * C10: Appraisal of a screening test * C11: Appraisal of a screening test (continued) * C12: Appraisal of diagnostic tests, ROC curves, The meaning of "normal" * C13: Test yourself (C) * D. Making Sense of Associations * D1: Introduction * D2: Explanations for an association * D3: Effects of misclassification, Statistical significance * D4: Statistical significance (continued) * D5: Confounding effects * D6: Confounding effects (continued) * D7: Multivariate analysis * D8: Explanations for the findings, Risk factors and risk markers, Appraising a risk marker, Uses of the findings * D9: Risk factors and risk markers (continued), Measures of the strength of an association * D10: Measures of strength * D11: Measures of strength (continued), Matched samples * D12: Synergism * D13: Appraising stratified data, Making sense of multivariate analysis * D14: Multiple logistic regression * D15: Multiple logistic regression (continued) * D16: Proportional hazards regression * D17: Multiple linear regression * D18: Test yourself (D) * E. Causes and Effects * E1: Introduction, Kinds of Study * E2: Appraising the results of a cross-sectional study * E3: Appraising the results of a case-control study * E4: Appraising the results of a cohort study * E5: Appraising the results of a group-based study * E6: Appraising the results of an experiment * E7: Appraising the results of a quasi-experiment * E8: Artifact, confounding or cause? * E9: Coping with confounding, Delving into causes * E10: Evidence for a causal relationship * E11: Evidence for a causal relationship (continued), The impact of a causal factor * E12: The attributable fraction * E13: Prevented and preventable fractions * E14: Test yourself (E) * F. Meta-Analysis: Putting It All Together * F1: Introduction * F2: The scope of meta-analysis * F3: Measures used in meta-analysis * F4: Measures used in meta-analysis (continued), Basic information * F5: Finding the studies * F6: Selecting studies * F7: The quality of the studies, Extracting the findings, Apples and oranges * F8: Appraising combinability, Explaining heterogeneity * F9: Explaining heterogeneity (continued) * F10: Effect modification * F11: Using the results, Evaluating a meta-analysis * F12: Test yourself (F) * G. Putting Study Findings to Use * G1: Introduction * G2: Are the results accurately known * G3: Validity of the findings * G4: Relevance of the findings * G5: Expected effects * G6: Feasibility and cost * G7: Test yourself (G) * References * Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
