Epidemiology Basics and Beyond
On this page we have composed a repository of available educational publications and presentations concerning epidemiology and biostatistics. We hope this page will help you find the answers to some of your methodological questions. For easy-reference we have grouped the information as follows:
- Paper series
- Single papers
- Journal collections
- Presentations
- Tutorials and workshops on statistical packages
- Links
Paper series
A variety of medical journals provide interesting series of educational papers. A couple of these are listed below. For easy-reference we have grouped them by journal.
A series of articles written by:
» Dekker
» Jager
» Kramar
» Stel
» Tripepi
» Wanner
» Zoccali
The corresponding author contact information is provided under 'extract'.
Access to the full text of a number of these and other papers is provided at the homepage of Martin Bland.
A series of articles written by:
» Greenhalgh - p.greenhalgh@ucl.ac.uk
» Taylor
A series of articles written by:
» Grimes - dgrimes@fhi.org
» Schulz - KSchulz@fhi.or
A series of articles written by:
» Burton - pb51@le.ac.uk
» Cordell - heather.cordell@cimr.cam.ac.uk
» Hattersley - mccarthy@drl.ox.ac.uk
» Hopper - hopper@unimelb.edu.au
» Palmer - palmer@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
» Smith - zetkin@bristol.ac.uk
» Teare - teare@sheffield.ac.uk
A series of articles written by:
» Grimes - dgrimes@fhi.org
» Schulz - KSchulz@fhi.or
A series of articles written by:
» Carpenter
» Datta
» Glynn
» Grisso
» Jolley
» Leon
» Mertens
» Sitthi-amorn
» Victora
Journal of the American Medical Association
Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice
This website of the Centre for Health Evidence (CHE) provides access to a complete set of Users' Guides originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Single papers
Normand SL, Sykora K, Li P, Mamdani M, Rochon PA, Anderson GM.; BMJ. 2005 Apr 30;330(7498):1021-1023.
» Anderson - geoff.anderson@utoronto.ca
Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 2. Assessing potential for confounding.
Mamdani M, Sykora K, Li P, Normand SL, Streiner DL, Austin PC, Rochon PA, Anderson GM.; BMJ. 2005 Apr 23;330(7497):960-962.
» Anderson - geoff.anderson@utoronto.ca
Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 1. Role and design.
Rochon PA, Gurwitz JH, Sykora K, Mamdani M, Streiner DL, Garfinkel S, Normand SL, Anderson GM.; BMJ. 2005 Apr 16;330(7496):895-897.
» Anderson - geoff.anderson@utoronto.ca
Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't.
Sackett DL, Rosenberg WM, Gray JA, Haynes RB, Richardson WS.; BMJ. 1996 Jan 13;312(7023):71-72.
Time and chance: the stochastic nature of disease causation.
Coggon DI, Martyn CN.; Lancet. 2005 Apr 16-22;365(9468):1434-1437.
» Martyn - cnm@mrc.soton.ac.uk
External validity of randomised controlled trials: "to whom do the results of this trial apply?".
Rothwell PM.; Lancet. 2005 Jan 1-7;365(9453):82-93.
» Rothwell - peter.rothwell@clneuro.ox.ac.uk
When are observational studies as credible as randomised trials?
Vandenbroucke JP.; Lancet. 2004 May 22;363(9422):1728-1731.» Vandenbroucke - J.P.Vandenbroucke@lumc.nl
Survival plots of time-to-event outcomes in clinical trials: good practice and pitfalls.
Pocock SJ, Clayton TC, Altman DG.; Lancet. 2002 May 11;359(9318):1686-1689.
» Pocock - stuart.pocock@lshtm.ac.uk
MacMahon S, Collins R.; Lancet. 2001 Feb 10;357(9254):455-462.
» MacMahon - s.macmahon@iih.usyd.edu.au
New England Journal of Medicine
Randomized, controlled trials, observational studies, and the hierarchy of research designs.
Concato J, Shah N, Horwitz RI.; N Engl J Med. 2000 Jun 22;342(25):1887-1892.
» Concato - john.concato@yale.edu
A comparison of observational studies and randomized, controlled trials.
Benson K, Hartz AJ.; N Engl J Med. 2000 Jun 22;342(25):1878-1886.
» Hartz - arthur-hartz@uiowa.edu
American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Study Designs in Patient-Oriented Research
Parikh CR, Concato J.; Am J Kidney Dis. 2006 Feb; 47(2):356-364.» Parikh - chirag.parikh@yale.edu
Mendelian randomization: a new approach to studying epidemiology in ESRD.
Zoccali C, Testa A, Spoto B, Tripepi G, Mallamaci F.; Am J Kidney Dis. 2006 Feb;47(2):332-341.
» Zoccali - carmine.zoccali@tin.it
Keough-Ryan T, Hutchinson T, MacGibbon B, Senecal M.; Am J Kidney Dis. 2002 Jun;39(6):1196-1205.
» Keough-Ryan - tammy.keough-ryan@cdha.nshealth.ca
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Cohort Studies: Marching Forward
Thadhani R, Tonelli M.; Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2006; 1:1117-1123.» Thadhani - rthadhani@partners.org
Reverse epidemiology of cardiovascular risk factors in maintenance dialysis patients.
Kalantar-Zadeh K, Block G, Humphreys MH, Kopple JD.; Kidney Int. 2003 Mar;63(3):793-808.
» Kalantar-Zadeh - kamkal@ucla.edu
What do we mean by validating a prognostic model?
Altman DG, Royston P.; Stat Med. 2000 Feb 29;19(4):453-473.
» Altman - altman@icrf.icnet.uk
BMC Medical Research Methodology
Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman DG; CONSORT.; BMC Med Res Methodol. 2001;1:2. Epub 2001 Apr 20.
» Moher - dmoher@uottawa.ca
Journal collections
Epidemiology for the Uninitiated
A collection of epidemiology notes written by D Coggon, Geoffrey Rose and DJP Barker.
A collection of statistics notes written by TDV Swinscow and revised by MJ Campbell
Presentations
Bias in nephrological Studies : what it is and how to deal with it
Zoccali C., 2006 July 17, Glasgow, Scotland.
Confounding - Stratification and multivariate analysis made simple
Jager KJ., 2006 July 17, Glasgow, Scotland.
What's wrong with correlation analysis?
Dekker FW., 2006 July 17, Glasgow, Scotland.
Zoccali C., 2005 June 6, Istanbul, Turkey.
Jager KJ., 2005 June 6, Istanbul, Turkey.
Confounding, Aetiology, and Prognostic models
Dekker FW., 2005 June 6, Istanbul, Turkey.
Diagnostic studies in Nephrology: from design to analysis
Zoccali C., 2004 May 17, Lisbon, Portugal.
Prognostic studies in Nephrology: survival analysis and beyond
Jager KJ., 2004 May 17, Lisbon, Portugal.
Wanner C., 2004 May 17, Lisbon, Portugal.
Tutorials and workshops on statistical packages
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Tutorials
SPSS Tutorials provided by the Texas A&M University, Department of Statistics.
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Workshop
SPSS On-Line Training Workshop provided by the Central Michigan University, Department of Mathematics.
Links
Chapter 9 from Medical Microbiology 4th ed textbook at US National Center for Biotechnology Information. Plain format at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
An overview provided by the Learning and Information Services at the University of Hertfordshire.
A group of articles assembled by the University of Pennsylvania Health System.