| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 295 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Principles of Clinical Reasoning -- Of Patients and Populations: Population-Based Data in Clinical Practice -- Test Performance: Disease Probability, Test Interpretation and Diagnosis -- Test Performance -- Disease Probability -- Test Interpretation -- Quantitative Aspects of Clinical Thinking: Predictive Values and Bayes' Theorem -- Application -- Alternative Applications -- Odds and Probabilities: Bayes' Theorem and Likelihood Ratios -- Implications of Bayes' Theorem for Diagnostic Testing -- Conceptual Factors Influencing Probability Estimates -- Bayes' Theorem and the Sequence of Testing -- Fundamentals of Screening: The Art and Science of Looking for Trouble -- Screening Defined -- Screening Criteria -- Statistical Considerations Pertinent to Screening -- Sequential Testing -- Statistics, Screening and Monetary Costs -- Statistics, Screening and Human Costs -- Screening Pros and Cons -- Measuring and Conveying Risk -- Measuring Risk to the Individual Patient -- Risk Factors -- Measuring Risk in Clinical Investigation -- Measuring Risk Modification -- Principles of Clinical Research -- Hypothesis Testing 1: Principles -- Association -- Variation -- Measuring Central Tendency: The Mean -- Measuring Dispersion: Variance and Standard Deviation -- Testing Hypotheses: The Signal to Noise Ratio -- Types of Clinical Data -- Characterizing Associations: Univariate, Bivariate, and Multivariate Methods -- Eliminating Alternative Explanations: The Threat of Confounding and Bias -- Hypothesis Testing 2: Mechanics -- Parametric Methods |
| Summary |
Written as a reference tool and resource for health care professionals, David L. Katz's primer uses clinical examples and extracts from peer-reviewed literature to show how statistical principles can improve medical decision making |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-282) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Clinical epidemiology.
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Evidence-based medicine.
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Epidemiologic Methods
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MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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Clinical epidemiology
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Evidence-based medicine
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Epidemiologie
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Evidenz-basierte Medizin
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Epidemiologie.
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Evidence-based practice.
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Psychology.
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Health psychology.
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Epidemiology & medical statistics.
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Clinical & internal medicine.
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Psychology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001001275 |
| ISBN |
9781452264318 |
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1452264317 |
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9781452232638 |
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1452232636 |
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1322417008 |
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9781322417004 |
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1506319653 |
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9781506319650 |
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