Section outline

  • Reminder: Problem-writing assignment due at midnight.  See top of Syllabus.

    Lecture 9: 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:

    • epi screening 2019 handout File

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

    • Watch URL
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    • 2014 Lecture (Watch) URL
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    • 2019 Lecture .mp4 URL
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    • Required Reading:


    • EBD2 Chapter 10 Screening 2019-0109 for sharing 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
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    • Tilman 2014 Nature Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health File
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    • Welch 2019 NEJM Epidemiologic signatures cancer File