SOURCES OF CASES IN AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY Cases in an epidemiological study can be sourced in any of the following ways: SOURCES OF CONTROLS IN AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY Controls in an epidemiological study can be sourced in any of the following ways: References Aschengrau A and Seage G.R (2013). Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health. […]
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Epidemiology
Ecological epidemiological studies are observational descriptive studies that investigate the rate of a disease in relation to a disease factor demonstrated on a population level rather than at individual levels. This type of study can also be called correlational epidemiological study or cluster investigations, and it examines a disease using a group of people or
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Epidemiology
Case reports are epidemiological studies that consist of the careful and thorough or comprehensive description of a patient’s health or disease summary which is usually given by the physician in charge of that patient. It is the most fundamental type of descriptive epidemiological study obtained from an individual in the investigation of a disease outbreak.
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Epidemiology
Analytical epidemiological study is a more detailed and all-encompassing epidemiological study than the descriptive epidemiological study. An analytical study describes the association between exposure and outcome (disease). It is meant to test the hypothesis of a descriptive epidemiology. Analytical study investigates the cause of a disease by studying how exposure of individuals relate to the
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Epidemiology
An epidemiological study usually involves two important steps that must be put into consideration prior to the investigation of disease/infection outbreak. The first step in any epidemiological study is to define the hypothesis to be tested. The hypothesis must take into consideration the description of the exposure and possible outcome of the disease. The second
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