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Why measure blood pressure? We perform measurement in patients when the measurement tells us something useful about the patient’s health that may be influenced by therapy or some intervention : the measurement should benefit the patient. Measurement invo ...
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Absolute risk reduction. Relative risk reduction. Number needed to treat. Calculating harm. Balancing risk / benefit. Communicating results. Relative risk. Odds ratio.
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Describe the health status of a defined population. Key concepts covered are incidence, prevalence, attack rate, relative risk, case-fatality rate and principles of standardization.
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Why certain kinds of studies answer certain kinds of questions. Understanding the terminology of study design. What design makes studies more or less reliable. How the cure for scurvy was discovered.
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Historical context of surveillance of public health. Definition and key principles of surveillance. Surveillance systems. Surveillance is the collection and analysis of data for action. There are many complementary surveillance systems in place in Canada t ...
