PDQ Epidemiology (BC DECKER) - Softcover

Streiner PhD, David L.; Norman PhD, Geoffrey R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550090771 ISBN 13: 9781550090772

Publisher: BC Decker, 1999

Synopsis

PDQ Epidemiologyis an exceptionally clear and highly irreverent review of the important concepts of medical statistics and their impact on public health policy. As the authors note in their preface: ...the role of epidemiology these days fills the gaping chasm between the scientific wisdom of the wet laboratory and the clinical wisdom of the ward. By translating the terminology of epidemiology into easy to understand language, the common sense of the methods emerges and makes sense to students.

Featuring unique examples titled Circular Reasoning and Anti-intellectual Pomposity Detectors (CRAP Detectors), the text helps the reader identify studies with basic flaws in design or research.

About this title

About the Author:

David L. Streiner, PhD Senior Scientist Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

Geoffrey R. Norman, PhD Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Dimensions of Clinical Expertise, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Assistant Dean, Programme for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario.

About this edition

• Publisher: BC Decker
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1550090771
• ISBN 13: 9781550090772
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160