Getting Organized
This tool helps you manage and organize scholarly materials.
What is Endnote or RefWorks?
Combining tools from fields of epidemiology and management allow concerted use of tools for informed decision making
What is evidence-based management (EBM)
These are "preventable difference in burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations".
Along the spectrum of disease, the point at which the disease becomes detectable through technology such as imaging.
What is the "clinical horizon"?
This type of study is especially suited for rare diseases.
What is a case control study.
Common business research databases.
What are: Google Scholar, EBSCO, PubMed, ProQuest.
Most common study designs used in managerial epidemiology are:
What is observational, retrospective, cohorts, case-control, cross-sectional, or quasi-experiments.
These are a group of people with at least one distinguishing characteristic: Live in a particular region, are part of a particular race or gender, or are born in a particular year.
What is a population?
New cases of diseases are measured by this type of rates.
What are incidence rates?
This is the odds of exposure in cases compared to contorls.
What is the odds ratio?
These are common citation styles.
APA, MLA, ACS, ASA, CSE, Chicago Style (Turabian), Medicine (NLM)
Name some sources of epidemiologic data in the US.
What is: US Census Bureau, National Center for Health Statistics- National Vital Statistics System; National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), Health Resources and Services Administration_ Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Census Bureau (American Community Survey), US Bureau of Labor Statistics- Injuries, Illnesses, and fatalities, etc.
These should reflect a population's dynamic state of physical, mental, and social well-being.
What are population health outcomes?
Statistical measurement for the percent of people with a disease who test positive.
What is sensitivity?
The time from initial development of disease until it is detected.
What is a latency period.
What are: (1) Incomplete or incorrect metadata, (2) Duplicate references, (3) Mis-formatted citations, (4) Forgetting to organize folders early.
Some reasons Managerial epidemiology is important.
(1) Improve organizational efficiency, (2) improve cost of care, (3) Increase quality of care, (4) Improve population health outcomes - OVERALL supports strategic organizational goals
“A collective or individual risk factor (or set of factors) that is causally related to a health condition, outcome, or other defined characteristic”
What are health determinants?
The chance that a person who tests negative for a disease actually does not have the disease.
This type of study, requires fewer subjects than a cohort study.
What is a case-control study.
What allows multiple researchers to collaborate on written works in endnote and update references in real time.
What is the "Shared Library" function.
This is a measurement used in managerial epidemiology to measure the # of potential years of life lost due to a disease.
YPLL - Years of Potential Life Lost
The relationship between mortality and age is best characterized by this kind of curve.
What is a J curve?
Indicates the percent of people without a disease who can be ruled out as being disease-free.
What is specificity?
An odds ratio < 1.0 means this.
What is the exposure is protective?