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1. Research Flashcards

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1. Research Methods

a. Epidemiology

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  1. use of routine vital and health statistics to describe the distribution of disease in time and place by person
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  1. numerators, denominators and populations at risk;
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  1. time at risk;
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  1. methods for summarising data;
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  1. incidence and prevalence including direct and indirect standardisation,
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  1. years of life lost;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. measures of disease burden (event-based and time-based) and population attributable risks including identification of comparison groups appropriate to pubic health
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. sources of variation, its measurement and control;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. common errors in epidemiological measurement, their effect on numerator and denominator data and their avoidance
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. concepts and measures of risk;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. the odds ratio;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. rate ratio and risk ratio (relative risk);
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. association and causation;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. biases and confounding;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. interactions, methods for assessment of effect modification;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. strategies to allow / adjust for confounding in design and analysis;
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17.the design, applications, strengths and weaknesses of descriptive studies and ecological studies

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a. Epidemiology

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    1. design, applications, strengths and weaknesses of cross-sectional, analytical studies (including cohort, case control and nested case control studies) and intervention studies (including randomised controlled trials)
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. analysis of health and disease in small areas;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. validity, reliability and generalisability
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. intention to treat analysis;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. clustered data - effects on sample size and approaches to analysis;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. numbers needed to treat (NNTs) - calculation, interpretation, advantages and disadvantages
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. time-trend analysis, time series designs;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. methods of sampling from a population;
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. methods of allocation in intervention studies;
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a. Epidemiology

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      1. the design of documentation for recording survey data, construction of valid questionnnaires and methods for validating observational techiques
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. studies of disease prognosis.
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a. Epidemiology

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  1. the ethics and etiquette of epidemiological research.
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1. Research Methods

a. Epidemiology, appropriate use of statistical methods in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, including:

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life-table analysis;

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a. Epidemiology, appropriate use of statistical methods in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, including:

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  1. epidemic theory (effective and basic reproduction numbers, epidemic thresholds) and techniques for analysis of infectious disease data (construction and use of epidemic curves, generation numbers, exceptional reporting and inentification of significant clusters)
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a. Epidemiology, appropriate use of statistical methods in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, including:

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  1. systematic reviews, methods for combining data from several studies, and meta-analysis;
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a. Epidemiology, appropriate use of statistical methods in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, including:

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  1. electronic bibliographical databases and their limitations;
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a. Epidemiology, appropriate use of statistical methods in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, including:

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  1. grey literature;
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1. Research Methods

a. Epidemiology, appropriate use of statistical methods in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, including:

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  1. publication bias;
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1. Research Methods

a. Epidemiology, appropriate use of statistical methods in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, including:

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  1. evidence based medicine and policy;
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a. Epidemiology, appropriate use of statistical methods in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, including:

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  1. the hierarchy of research evidence - from well conducted meta-analysis down to small case series
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a. Epidemiology, appropriate use of statistical methods in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, including:

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  1. the Cochrane Collaboration;
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1. Research Methods

a. Epidemiology, appropriate use of statistical methods in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, including:

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  1. Understanding of basic issues and terminology in the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of population based genetic association studies, including twin studies, linkage and association studies
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. elementary probability theory;
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b. Statistical methods

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  1. methods for the quantification of uncertainty;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. estimation of confidence intervals;
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b. Statistical methods

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  1. independence of events;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. conditional probability;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. standard statistical distributions (e.g. normal, Poisson and binomial) and their uses;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. sampling distributions;
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b. Statistical methods

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  1. principles of making inferences from a sample to a population;
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b. Statistical methods

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  1. measures of location and dispersion and their appropriate uses;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. graphical methods in statistics;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. hypothesis testing;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. type I and II errors;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. problems of multiple comparisons;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. parametric and non-parametric tests for comparing two or more groups;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. sample size and statistical power;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. regression and correlation;
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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  1. the appropriate use, objectives, and value of multiple linear regression, multiple logistic regression, principles of life tables and Cox regression
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1. Research Methods

b. Statistical methods

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        1. comparison of survival rates; heterogeneity; funnel plots; the role of Bayes’ theorem.
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1. Research Methods

c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. the uses of epidemiology and other methods in defining health service needs and in policy development
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. participatory needs assessment;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. formulation and interpretation of measures of utilisation and performance;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. measures of supply and demand;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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    1. study design for assessing effectiveness, efficiency and acceptability of services including measures of structure, process, service quality, and outcome of helath care
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1. Research Methods

c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. measures of health status, quality of life and health care;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. population health outcome indicators;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. deprivation measures;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. principles of evaluation, including quality assessment and quality assurance;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. equity in health care;
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1. Research Methods

c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. clinical audit;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. confidential enquiry processes;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. the use of Delphi methods;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. appropriateness and adequacy of services and their acceptability to consumers and providers;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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14.economic evaluation (see also 4.d);

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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. epidemiological basis for preventive strategies;
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c. Approaches to the assessment of health care needs, utilisation and outcomes, and the evaluation of health and health care

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  1. health and environmental impact assessment.
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d. The principles of qualitative methods including:

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  1. semi-structured, narrative and in-depth interviewing, focus groups, action research, participant observation
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d. The principles of qualitative methods including:

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  1. the contribution of qualitative methods to public health research and policy;
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d. The principles of qualitative methods including:

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  1. the appropriate use, analysis and presentation of qualitative data;
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d. The principles of qualitative methods including:

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  1. the ethical issues which may arise;
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d. The principles of qualitative methods including:

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  1. common errors and their avoidance;
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d. The principles of qualitative methods including:

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  1. strengths and weaknesses.

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