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Aug 31, 2024
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PA 620 - Introduction to Biostatistics Evidence-Based Medicine (2) Basic concepts of descriptive and analytic epidemiology are presented and discussed. Topics covered include measures of disease frequency, probability, overview of study designs, sampling methods, framing and testing a research question, tests of significance (p-values, confidence intervals, chi-square tests), limits of research including data quality measures and bias, and the use of common databases to access medical literature. Each of these concepts is taught with a focus on how to read and interpret the medical literature to allow a clinical career driven by evidence-based medicine. Prerequisite(s): PA 610, PA 611, PA 614, PA 615, PA 616, PA 617
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