The scentific basis for clinical medicine -- Abnormality -- Diagnosis -- Frequency -- Risk, looking forward -- Risk, looking backward -- Prognosis -- Treatment -- Prevention -- Chance -- Cause -- Systematic reviews -- Knowledge management.
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A comprehensive, concise, and clinically oriented introduction to the subject of epidemiology. Introduces students to the principles of evidence-based medicine that will help develop and apply methods of clinical observation in order to form accurate conclusions. This Fourth Edition includes more complete coverage of systematic reviews and knowledge management, as well as other key topics such as abnormality, diagnosis, frequency and risk, prognosis, treatment, prevention, chance, studying cases and cause.