Clinical Epidemiology

This text defines clinical epidemiology in terms of the principles and methods of research used to evaluate factors that affect the outcome of illness. It emphasizes the evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and demonstrates various ways of structuring observations on patient groups.

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This text defines clinical epidemiology in terms of the principles and methods of research used to evaluate factors that affect the outcome of illness. It emphasizes the evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, demonstrates various ways of structuring observations on patient groups, and discusses the nature and strength ofinferences that can be drawn from those observations.