TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordis,Leon
TI  - Epidemiology
SN  - 9781416040026
AV  - RA651 .G58 2009
U1  - 614.4 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Elsevier/Saunders
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Epidemiologic Methods
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The dynamics of disease transmission -- Measuring the occurrence of disease: I. Morbidity -- Measuring the occurrence of disease: II. Mortality -- Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests -- The natural history of disease: ways of expressing prognosis -- Assessing the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic measures: randomized trials -- Randomized trials: some further issues -- Cohort studies -- Case-control studies and other study designs -- Estimating risk: is there an association? -- More on risk: estimating the potential for prevention -- A pause for review: comparing cohort and case-control studies -- From association to causation: deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies -- More on causal inferences: bias, confounding, and interaction -- Identifying the roles of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation -- Using epidemiology to evaluate health services -- The epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs -- Epidemiology and public policy -- Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0723/2007030111.html
ER  -