Course: EPI 204: Clinical Epidemiology (Fall 2015)

Section outline

General

EPI 204 Fall 2015 (3 units).
Course Director: Thomas B. Newman, MD, MPH.
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Pediatrics.
Course Co-Director: Michael A. Kohn, MD, MPP.
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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Lecture: Course overview, the diagnostic process, and measures of interobserver agreement

Introduction to the course and how we will teach it; how the reason for making a diagnosis affects the optimal classification scheme; concordance, unweighted Kappa, linear and quadratic weighted Kappa

Faculty: Tom Newman

Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Small Group Discussion Section
Review of Chapter 1 problems and "Kappa Game"

Faculty: Sachin Garg, Emily Larimer, Mariya Samoylova, Mihael Wilson, Christine Dehlendorf, Michael Kohn, Tom Newman, Martina Steurer

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Lecture: Dichotomous Tests
Sensitivity, specificity, predictive value, prior and posterior probability; 2x2 table method for getting posterior probability; probability and odds; likelihood ratios, the likelihood ratio slide rule, false-positive and false negative confusion; use of X-graphs to understand testing and treatment thresholds

Faculty: Thomas Newman

Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Small Group Discussion Section
Review Chapter 2 Problems (Epi204 HW2 2012.doc)

Faculty: Sachin Garg, Emily Larimer, Mariya Samoylova, Mihael Wilson, Christine Dehlendorf, Michael Kohn, Tom Newman, Martina Steurer

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Lecture: Multilevel and continuous tests
ROC Curves, interval likelihood ratios, and the relationship between them; how making multilevel tests dichotomous wastes information; choosing cutoffs, the Walking Man approach to the "non-parametric" ROC curve.

Faculty: Michael Kohn

Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Small Group Discussion Section
Review Chapter 3 problems (HW Set 3 Epi 204_2012.doc)

Faculty: Sachin Garg, Emily Larimer, Mariya Samoylova, Mihael Wilson, Christine Dehlendorf, Michael Kohn, Tom Newman, Martina Steurer

Location: Garg MH-2105, Larimer MH-2106, Samoylova MH-2107, Wilson MH-2108
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Lecture: Studies of Diagnostic Tests
Common biases in test accuracy studies: incorporation bias, verification bias, double gold-standard bias, spectrum bias; Prevalence, spectrum bias, and nonindependence; checklist vs systematic approach to critical appraisal of studies of diagnostic tests

Faculty: Thomas Newman

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Small Group Discussion Section
Review Chapter 4 problems

Faculty: Sachin Garg, Emily Larimer, Mariya Samoylova, Mihael Wilson, Christine Dehlendorf, Michael Kohn, Tom Newman, Martina Steurer

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Lecture: 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: Thomas Newman

Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Small Group Discussion Section
Review Chapter 5 problems

Faculty: Sachin Garg, Emily Larimer, Mariya Samoylova, Mihael Wilson, Christine Dehlendorf, Michael Kohn, Tom Newman, Martina Steurer

Location: Garg MH-2105, Larimer MH-2106, Samoylova MH-2107, Wilson MH-2108
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Lecture: Prognostic tests / Combining Tests
Prognostic Tests: differences from diagnostic tests; calibration and discrimination; comparing predictions; value of prognostic information. Combining tests/diagnostic models: recursive partitioning; logistic regression; importance of validation separate from derivation. (Will cover test non-independence on 10/29.)

Faculty: Michael Kohn

Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Small Group Discussion Section
Review Chapter 6 problems

Faculty: Sachin Garg, Emily Larimer, Mariya Samoylova, Mihael Wilson, Christine Dehlendorf, Michael Kohn, Tom Newman, Martina Steurer

Location: Garg MH-2105, Larimer MH-2106, Samoylova MH-2107, Wilson MH-2108
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Lecture: Combining Tests (continued)/Quantifying the benefits and harms of treatments using randomized trials
Combining tests: importance of test non-independence. Randomized Trials: RCT checklist; importance of baseline incidence; measures of effect size: Relative risk (RR), relative risk reduction (RRR), Odds ratio (OR), Absolute risk reduction (ARR), Number needed to treat (NNT); "Back of the Envelope Cost Effectiveness Analysis"

Faculty: Michael Kohn

Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Small Group Discussion Section
Review Chapter 7 & 8 problems

Faculty: Sachin Garg, Emily Larimer, Mariya Samoylova, Mihael Wilson, Christine Dehlendorf, Michael Kohn, Tom Newman, Martina Steurer

Location: Garg MH-2105, Larimer MH-2106, Samoylova MH-2107, Wilson MH-2108
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Lecture: Alternatives to randomized trials
When randomized trials are and may not be needed; instrumental variables and natural experiments; measuring additional predictor and outcome variables to estimate bias; propensity scores.

Faculty: Thomas Newman

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Review Chapter 9 problems

Faculty: Sachin Garg, Emily Larimer, Mariya Samoylova, Mihael Wilson, Christine Dehlendorf, Michael Kohn, Tom Newman, Martina Steurer

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Lecture: P-values and confidence intervals
Introduction and justification: why this Bayesian stuff is important and why we think you can handle it; what P-values and confidence intervals don' t mean; what they do mean; confidence intervals for negative studies and for proportions with small numerators

Faculty: Thomas Newman

Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Small Group Discussion Section
Review Chapter 10 problems

Faculty: Sachin Garg, Emily Larimer, Mariya Samoylova, Mihael Wilson, Christine Dehlendorf, Michael Kohn, Tom Newman, Martina Steurer

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Lecture: Challenges for Evidence-based Diagnosis and Course Review
Criticisms of evidence-based medicine; stories and statistics; psychology of medical decision making: heuristics used to estimate probability. Course review.

Faculty: Thomas Newman

Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Small Group Discussion Section
Review Chapter 11 problems

Faculty: Sachin Garg, Emily Larimer, Mariya Samoylova, Mihael Wilson, Christine Dehlendorf, Michael Kohn, Tom Newman, Martina Steurer

Location: Garg MH-2105, Larimer MH-2106, Samoylova MH-2107, Wilson MH-2108
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Thursday, December 3, 2015; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Lecture: Final Examination Review

Faculty: Thomas Newman

Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Thursday, January 21, 2016; 1:00 PM
Make-Up Final Examination (Due Thursday 2/4/2016 by 5 pm)

Faculty: Michael Kohn, Tom Newman

Location: Mission Hall
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