Health care professionals increasingly have to make clinical decisions in aging and diverse populations. Also, they have to deal with rising health care costs, fragmented health care supply and advancing medical technologies and IT systems. These developments go beyond every day practice and will require new skills. In this course we will walk you through key steps in designing a research study, from formulating the research question to common pitfalls you might encounter when interpreting your results. We will focus primarily on analytical studies used in etiological research, which aims to investigate the causal relationship between putative risk factors (or determinants) and a given disease or other outcome. However, the principles we will discuss hold true for most research questions, and you will also encounter these study designs in prognostic and diagnostic research settings.
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Population Health: Study Design
Universiteit LeidenAbout this Course
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Approx. 28 hours to complete
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You will be able to formulate a good research question
You will be able to interpret and apply different frequency and effect measures
You will be able to recognize errors and deal with bias and confounding
You will be able to describe basic principles of causal inference
Skills you will gain
- Clinical Epidemiology
- Clinical Study Design
- A basic understanding of epidemiological theory
- Critical reading and thinking
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English
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
1 hour to complete
Welcome to Study Design
1 hour to complete
2 videos (Total 4 min), 6 readings
6 hours to complete
Design
6 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 49 min), 2 readings, 4 quizzes
6 hours to complete
Measures
6 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 42 min), 2 readings, 4 quizzes
7 hours to complete
Confounding and bias
7 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 41 min), 1 reading, 3 quizzes
8 hours to complete
Inference
8 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 26 min), 2 readings, 4 quizzes
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