Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts Volume 4155 || Introduction

✍ Scribed by Miettinen, O. S.

• Book ID: 115460165
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: Dutch
• Weight: 133 KB
• Edition: 2011
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 9400711719
• DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1171-6_4

✦ Synopsis

The book is organized so as to address in separate sections first the preparatory topics of medicine (clinical and epidemiological), science in general, and statistics (mathematical); then topics of epidemiological research proper; and, finally, topics of ‘meta-epidemiological’ clinical research. In those two main sections, a further grouping is based on the distraction between objects and methods of study. In this framework, the particular topics are addressed both descriptively and quasi-prescriptively, commonly with a number of explicatory annotations. This book is intended to serve as a handbook for whomever is, in whatever way, concerned with epidemiological or ‘meta-epidemiological’ clinical research. But besides this, it is also intended to serve as a textbook for students in introductory courses on ‘epidemiological’ research – to which end there is a suggested hierarchy of the concepts that might reasonably be covered.