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Author: Aurora Villarroel

Practical Clinical Epidemiology for the Veterinarian provides thorough coverage of the fundamentals of epidemiological concepts, situated within the context of daily clinical practice.

• Examines epidemiology from the lens of daily clinical practice to offer a truly practical approach
• Demonstrates the relevance of epidemiology to clinical problems faced in the field using practical examples to clarify the concepts
• Includes clinical cases from all species, with an emphasis on small animal and equine medicine, to demonstrate the concepts
• Uses an easy-to-read approach, with graphs, flowcharts, and tables to promote understanding
• Includes access to a companion website with exercises for study and review

Table of Contents:

1 Describing Health and Disease

• Case definition

• What is the problem?

• Who is affected?

• Where is the disease concentrated?

• When does disease occur?

• Types of measurements

  • Counts

  • Proportions

  • Ratios

  • Rates

• Specific measurements of disease

  • Prevalence

  • Incidence

  • Morbidity

  • Mortality

  • Disease-specific mortality

  • Case-fatality

2 Basic Epidemiology Concepts

• Outcome

• Risk factor

• Unit of analysis

• Types of variables

• Appropriate statistical analyses for continuous/parametric variables

• Appropriate statistical analyses for categorical/nonparametric variables

• Appropriate statistical analyses for multiple samples taken from the same animal

• Control groups

• Sample size and P-value

• Error and bias

• Confounding

• Interaction

3 Evidence-Based Medicine for the Veterinarian

• Evaluation of a research paper

• Data presentation in the results

• Interpretation of results

• Statistical significance

• Biological significance

4 Study Designs

• Retrospective studies

• Case–control studies

• Surveys

• Cross-sectional studies

• Prospective studies

• Cohort studies

• Clinical trials

• Sampling strategies

5 Causation versus Association

• Hill’s criteria to determine causation

  • Temporal association

  • Consistency of association

  • Specificity of association

  • Dose–response (biological gradient)

  • Biologic plausibility

  • Analogy

• Measures of association

  • Odds ratio

  • Relative risk

  • Attributable risk

6 Diagnostic Tests

• Test quality

  • Accuracy

  • Precision

  • Discrimination ability

• Test performance

  • Sensitivity

  • Specificity

  • Positive predictive value

  • Negative predictive value

• Screening

  • Parallel testing

  • Serial testing

  • Gold standard

7 Outbreak Investigations

• Definitions

• Steps in an outbreak investigation

  • Case definition/diagnosis verification

  • Determine the magnitude of the problem

  • Describe the spatial and temporal patterns of disease

  • Analyze potential risk factors

  • Follow-up

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