Main description:

This book provides practical knowledge to clinicians and biomedical researchers using biological and biochemical specimen/samples in order to understand health and disease processes at cellular, clinical, and population levels. Concepts and techniques provided will help researchers design and conduct studies, then translate data from bench to clinics in attempt to improve the health of patients and populations. This book presents the extreme complexity of epidemiologic research in a concise manner that will address the issue of confounders, thus allowing for more valid inferences and yielding results that are more reliable and accurate.

Contents:

Part I

Chapter One Epidemiologic Research Conceptualization
Chapter Two Epidemiologic Proposal Development & Protocol

Chapter Three Epidemiologic Research Challenge: Confounding, and Effect Measure Modifier
Chapter Four Epidemiologic Case Ascertainment: Disease Screening & Diagnosis
Part II Epidemiologic Methods & Concepts
Chapter Five Epidemiologic Methods and the Measures of Disease Occurrence and Association

Chapter Six Epidemiologic Study Designs : Overview

Chapter Seven Ecologic Studies: Design, Conduct & Interpretation

Chapter Eight Case-Control Studies: Design, Conduct & Interpretation

Chapter Nine Cross-sectional Studies: Design, Conduct & Interpretation
Chapter Ten Cohort Studies: Design, Conduct & Interpretation

Chapter Eleven Clinical Trials (Experimental Designs)

Chapter Twelve Epidemiologic Causal Inference in Clinical and Quantitative Evidence Synthesis

Part III Perspectives, Challenges and Future of Epidemiology

Chapter Thirteen Perspectives and Challenges in Epidemiology

Chapter Fourteen Role of Epidemiology in Health and Healthcare Policy

Chapter Fifteen Consequentialist Epidemiology in Clinical & Translational Research