'Potential confounders' presentation slideshows

Introduction to Cox Regression

Introduction to Cox Regression. Kristin Sainani Ph.D. http://www.stanford.edu/~kcobb Stanford University Department of Health Research and Policy. History.

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Using Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) to assess confounding

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Epidemiologic Study Designs M. Tevfik DORAK

Epidemiologic Study Designs M. Tevfik DORAK. Clinical Studies & Objective Medicine Bodrum, 15-16 April 2006. Epidemiologic Study Designs. Experimental. Observational. (RCTs). Analytic al. Descriptive. Case-Control. Cohort. + cross-sectional & ecologic. Epidemiologic Study Designs.

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Abortion Raises Breast Cancer Risk A Resource for Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Abortion Raises Breast Cancer Risk A Resource for Crisis Pregnancy Centers. Karen Malec, Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, www.AbortionBreastCancer.com Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS, Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, www.BCPInstitute.org. PART II. Table of Contents. PART II

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Powerful Project Summaries

Powerful Project Summaries. Barbara Ustanko, Senior Proposal Editor Office of Research & Sponsored Programs. Why is the Project Summary Important?. Succinct stand-alone overview of: Research goals, objectives and methods Significance and Innovation

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Fonarow GC, et al. J Am Heart Assoc. 2012;1:16-26.

Incremental Reduction in Risk of Death Associated with Use of Guideline-Recommended Therapies in Patients with Heart Failure: A Nested Case Control Analysis of IMPROVE HF.

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Causal reasoning; confounding (introduction)

Summer Course: Introduction to Epidemiology. August 28, 1330-1500. Causal reasoning; confounding (introduction). Dr. N. Birkett, Department of Epidemiology & Community Medicine, University of Ottawa. Session Overview. Review historical approaches to establishing causation

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Heat Related Indices for the Health Sector

Heat Related Indices for the Health Sector. Glenn McGregor (University of Auckland, NZ) Christina Koppe (German Weather Service, Germany) Sari Kovats (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK). The Challenge of a Climate Index for the Health Sector.

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Childhood Asthma and Exposure to Traffic and NO 2

Childhood Asthma and Exposure to Traffic and NO 2. W. James Gauderman , Edward Avol , Fred Lurmann , Nino Kuenzli , Frank Gilliland, John Peters, and Rob McConnell . Epidemiology, Volume 16, Number 6, 2005. Presented by Nina Ewall. Introduction. NAAQS for NO 2 is 53 ppb

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Circumcision and HIV Vaccines: What are the connections?

Circumcision and HIV Vaccines: What are the connections? Susan Buchbinder, MD HIV Research Section San Francisco Department of Public Health International AIDS Society Meeting Mexico City August 4, 2008 MRKAd5 trivalent vaccine Vaccine: 1:1:1 admixture of 3 Ad5 vectors

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Intervention Trials Principles of study design

Intervention Trials Principles of study design. James B. Spies M.D.MPH Professor of Radiology Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington D. C. Categories of Studies Users Guide to Medical Literature. Studies answer one of 4 types of questions: Therapy (efficacy)

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Review of Coursera Data Analysis Course

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Chapter 19 Stratified 2-by-2 Tables

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HCV Infection in Marginalized Populations

HCV Infection in Marginalized Populations. Brian Conway, MD, FRCPC Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre (VIDC). IDUs will drive the future HCV epidemic in Canada. 300,000 HCV-infected Canadians, including over 180,000 IDUs (60% of prevalent cases)

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Analysis of Observational Studies

Analysis of Observational Studies. Biost/Stat 579. David Yanez Department of Biostatistics University of Washington. Observational Studies. Scientific question(s) Challenges Control of bias Confounding Measurement Sampling Inferring casual relationships Scientific plausibility

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Cross-sectional study

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Shorter Menstrual Cycles Associated with Chlorination By-Products in Drinking Water

Shorter Menstrual Cycles Associated with Chlorination By-Products in Drinking Water. Gayle Windham, K Waller, M Anderson, L Fenster, P Mendola, S Swan California Department of Health Services Environmental Health Investigations Branch (Work supported in large part by USEPA).

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Presented at the Population Health - Methods and Challenges Conference, Birmingham 2012

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Abstract: WEABO205. HIV infection was associated with an increased risk of hip fracture, independently of age, gender and co-morbidities: a population-based cohort study.

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