Section outline

  • Lecture 8: Screening Tests
    Need for a more critical approach for screening tests, risk factor vs disease screening; biases in observational studies of screening: lead time bias, length time bias, volunteer bias, stage migration bias, pseudodisease; randomized trials of screening

    Faculty:  Martina Steurer-Muller
     
    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Lec 8 Screening (Martina) File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch (Mediasite version) Lec 8 2016 only fair sound quality URL
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    • 2014 Lecture (Watch) URL
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    • .mp4 URL
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    • Required Reading:

      EBD-1, p 116-137, Screening Tests (posted below as a pdf)

    • EBD-1 p116-173 Screening.pdf File

    • Optional Reading:

    • Merenstein D. Winners & Losers. JAMA 2004;291:242-5 File
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    • Woloshin et al. Cancer Screening Campaigns — Getting Past Uninformative Persuasion. NEJM 2012; 367:1677-1679 URL
    • Heath 2014 BMJ Role of fear in overdiagnosis File
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only
    • Heath 2013 BMJ Overdiagnosis When good intentions meet vested interests File
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    • We're #37. (Song celebrating US Healthcare Ranking by Paul Hipp) URL
    • Newman 2016 JAMA IM Lipid screening in children-low value care File
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    • Annas 1995 NEJM Reframing the Debate on Healthcare by replacing Metaphors File
    • Tilman 2014 Nature Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health File
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