Epidemiology
What causes disease
Individual clinical expertise
What you do
External clinical evidence
What the course helps with
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Certificate - twice a year
Efficacy
Research studies. The extent to which a specific intervention, procedure, regimen or service produces a beneficial result under ideal conditions.
Effectiveness
A measure of the extent to which a specific intervention, procedure, regimen, or service when deployed in the field in routine circumstances, does what it is intended to do for a specified population.
Heirarchy of evidence
Research (journals, conferences), textbooks (4 years old usually), internet, CE courses (mixed - bias from who is paying the presenter), experts.
Heirarchy of evidence quality
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- Clinical trial (in humans)
- Longitudinal cohort studies
- Case-control studies
- Descriptive and cross-sectional studies
- Case reports and Case Series
- Personal opinion, subjective impressions, anecdotal accounts
RCT
Randomized clinical trial
