Unit RESEARCH STATISTICS AND METHODOLOGY
- Course
- Biomedical laboratory techniques
- Study-unit Code
- A003223
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Massimo Moretti
- CFU
- 3
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
| Code | 40285806 |
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| CFU | 1 |
| Teacher | Massimo Moretti |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Scienze interdisciplinari |
| Academic discipline | SECS-S/02 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian. |
| Contents | Fonti dell’informazione sanitaria. Contenuti degli articoli pubblicati nelle riviste di ricerca secondo il formato IMRAD (Introduzione, Metodo, Risultati e Discussione), presentazione di alcuni esempi. Banche dati. Revisione della letteratura (revisioni sistematiche e meta-analisi). |
| Educational objectives | Il corso intende introdurre lo studente ai fondamenti concettuali e metodologici della ricerca epidemiologica e della medicina basata sulle prove di efficacia (EBM, evidence based medicine). Al termine del corso lo studente sarà in grado di effettuare una ricerca bibliografica e di interpretare i risultati presentati negli articoli scientifici pubblicati in letteratura. |
| Prerequisites | Conoscenze di base relative alla statistica descrittiva e alla metodologia epidemiologica. |
| Teaching methods | Face-to-face lessons. |
| Learning verification modality | Written exam: closed-ended questions. |
MEDICAL STATISTICS
| Code | GP003899 |
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| CFU | 2 |
| Teacher | Massimo Moretti |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Scienze propedeutiche |
| Academic discipline | MED/01 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian. |
| Contents | General principles of medical statistics and epidemiology. |
| Reference texts | Flowler J., Jarvis P., Chevannes M. "Statistica per le Professioni Sanitarie" - Edizioni EdiSES, 2005. |
| Educational objectives | The learning experiences should help students in achieving attitudes and practices on common techniques used in statistics and epidemiology. |
| Prerequisites | None. |
| Teaching methods | Face-to-face lessons. |
| Other information | |
| Learning verification modality | Written exam (closed-ended questions). |
| Extended program | Essentials of Medical Statistics: Numerical/categorical variables. Analysis of numerical outcomes: mean/median, standard deviation, standard error. The normal distribution. Inferential statistics. Comparison of two means: hypothesis tests and p-values. Student's t-test, ANOVA, Chi-square test. Epidemiologic Methods: Epidemiology: definition and scope. Rates of morbidity and mortality. Mortality tables. Population pyramids. Study design: Observational and experimental epidemiology. Ecological studies. Cross-sectional studies. Measures of disease frequency: prevalence and incidence. Analytical epidemiology: cohort studies and case-control studies. Causal and/or noncausal association. Evaluation of relative risk (RR) and odds-ratio (OR); attributable risk. Experimental epidemiology: preventive trials, randomized controlled trials. |