Neuroepidemiology: From Principles to Practice

Author by : Lorene M. Nelson
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2004
Publisher by : Oxford University Press

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Description : This fine text provides a comprehensive overview of methods for epidemiologic and clinical research on neurological disorders. The book focuses on classic principles of study design in epidemiologic research, strategies for avoiding study biases, methods for conducting clinical trials and prognostic studies, and principles of evidence-based medicine in neurology. The text gives neurologists, epidemiologists, and their students the foundation for conducting rigorous epidemiologic and clinical research on neurologic disorders....

Author by : Tracy Batchelor
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2001
Publisher by : Butterworth-Heinemann

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Description : This unique text offers practitioners both a review of the basic concepts of epidemiology, statistics, and clinical trials and a discussion of the epidemiologic aspects of many neurological diseases. Much of the information contained in Principles of Neuroepidemiology, such as cost-effectiveness analyses, has been difficult for busy practitioners to find in the past. By reading this book, physicians will acquire the skills they need to critically evaluate randomized trials that have affected the clinical practice of neurology....

Author by : Jorn Olsen
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2010-04-15
Publisher by : OUP Oxford

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Description : Teaching Epidemiology requires skill and knowledge, combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedagogic skills. The general advice is simple: if you are not an expert on a topic, try to enrich your background knowledge before you start teaching. Teaching Epidemiology third edition helps you to do this, and by providing the world-expert teacher's advice on how best to structure teaching gives a unique insight in to what has worked in their hands. The book will help you planyour own tailored teaching programme.The book is a guide to new teachers in the field at two levels; those teaching basic courses for undergraduates, and those teaching more advanced courses for students at postgraduate level. Each chapter provides key concepts and a list of key references. Subject specific methodology and disease specific issues (from cancer to genetic epidemiology) are dealt with in details. There is also a focused chapter on the principles and practice of computer-assisted learning....

Author by : Jorn Olsen
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2010-04-15
Publisher by : Oxford University Press, USA

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Description : Teaching Epidemiology is published in collaboration with the International Association of Epidemiology (IEA) and the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology (EEPE) --Book Jacket....

Author by : Jorn Olsen
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2010-06-25
Publisher by : OUP Oxford

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Description : Teaching epidemiology requires skill and knowledge, combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedagogic skills. The general advice is simple: if you are not an expert on a topic, try to enrich your background knowledge before you start teaching. Teaching Epidemiology, third edition helps you to do this, and by providing the world-expert teacher's advice on how best to structure teaching gives a unique insight in to what has worked in their hands. The book will help you plan your own tailored teaching program. The book is a guide to new teachers in the field at two levels; those teaching basic courses for undergraduates, and those teaching more advanced courses for students at postgraduate level. Each chapter provides key concepts and a list of key references. Subject specific methodology and disease specific issues (from cancer to genetic epidemiology) are dealt with in details. There is also a focused chapter on the principles and practice of computer-assisted learning....

Author by : Carol Brayne
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2020-11-02
Publisher by : Oxford University Press, USA

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Description : The Oxford Textbook of Neurologic and Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology focuses on the overlaps between neuro-epidemiological disorders. Harmonising cohort studies to determine causes related to rarer disorders, this key work is an invaluable reference to current neuro-epidemiological methods....

Author by : John Yarnell
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2007
Publisher by : Oxford University Press

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Description : This book takes a unique systems-based approach, allowing students to visualise the overall systemic effects of the disease process in its entirety....