Journal Club Series Episode 14 - Cost Benefit, Cost Effectiveness, and Outcomes
PHM from Pittsburgh
Title: Journal Club Series Episode 14- Cost Benefit, Cost Effectiveness, and Outcomes Target Audience This activity is directed to physicians, medical students, nurse practitioners, nurses, and physician assistants. Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: • Evaluate cost-benefit analyses and their impact on patient outcomes. • Analyze cost-effectiveness studies and their influence on patient outcomes. Course Directors: Tony R. Tarchichi MD — Associate Professor, Department of...
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Journal Club Series Episode 13- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
PHM from Pittsburgh
Title: Journal Club Series Episode 13- Systematic review and meta-analysis Target Audience This activity is directed to physicians, medical students, nurse practitioners, nurses, and physician assistants. Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: • Conduct systematic reviews and apply proper methodologies. • Perform meta-analyses and utilize appropriate techniques. Course Directors: Tony R. Tarchichi MD — Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of...
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Journal Club Series Episode 12- Regression (eg, linear, logistic, survival analysis)
PHM from Pittsburgh
Title: Journal Club Series Episode 12- Regression (eg, linear, logistic, survival analysis) Target Audience This activity is directed to physicians, medical students, nurse practitioners, nurses, and physician assistants. Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: • Describe the concept of regression. • Differentiate between linear and logistic regression. • Interpret survival analysis. Course Directors: Tony R. Tarchichi MD — Associate...
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Journal Club Series Episode 11- Measurement of association and effect (eg, correlation & causation)
PHM from Pittsburgh
Title: Journal Club Series Episode 11- Measurement of association and effect (eg, correlation & causation) Target Audience This activity is directed to physicians, medical students, nurse practitioners, nurses, and physician assistants. Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: Review measurement of association and effect. Review relative risk & Odds ratio. Course Directors: Tony R. Tarchichi MD — Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of...
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Journal Club Series Episode 10- Measurement of association and effect (relative risk & odds ratio)
PHM from Pittsburgh
Title: Journal Club Series Episode 10- Measurement of association and effect (relative risk & odds ratio) Target Audience This activity is directed to physicians who take care of hospitalized children, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards. Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: 1. Review measurement of association and effect. 2. Review relative risk & Odds ratio. Course Directors:...
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Journal Club Series Episode 9 - Common statistical tests Part 2 (eg, Student’s T test, analysis of variance [ANOVA], chi-square, nonparametric tests)
PHM from Pittsburgh
Title: Journal Club Series Episode 9 - Common statistical tests Part 2 (eg, Student’s T test, analysis of variance [ANOVA], chi-square, nonparametric tests) Target Audience This activity is directed to physicians who take care of hospitalized children, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards. Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: 1. Review common statistical tests 2. Review Student’s T...
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Journal Club Series Episode 8 - Common statistical tests Part 1 (eg, Student’s T test, analysis of variance [ANOVA], chi-square, nonparametric tests)
PHM from Pittsburgh
Title: Journal Club Series Episode 8 - Common statistical tests Part 1 (eg, Student’s T test, analysis of variance [ANOVA], chi-square, nonparametric tests) Target Audience This activity is directed to physicians who take care of hospitalized children, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards. Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: 1. Review common statistical tests 2. Review Student’s...
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Journal Club Series Episode 7 - Statistical Power
PHM from Pittsburgh
Title: Journal Club Series Episode 7- Statistical Power Target Audience This activity is directed to physicians who take care of hospitalized children, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards. Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: 1. Review Statistical power in research, when to use it and how to interpret it. Course Directors: Tony R. Tarchichi MD — Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of...
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Journal Club Series Episode 6 - Hypothesis Testing (e.g. Type 1 and Type II Errors, P-values)
PHM from Pittsburgh
Title: Episode 6- Hypothesis Testing (e.g. Type 1 and Type II Errors, P-values) Target Audience This activity is directed to physicians who take care of hospitalized children, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards. Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: 1. Discuss the definition and relevance of p-values. 2. Discuss type 1 vs type ii errors. 3. Discuss statistical...
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Journal Club Series Episode 5 - Bias and Confounding
PHM from Pittsburgh
Title: Episode 5 - Bias and Confounding Target Audience This activity is directed to physicians who take care of hospitalized children, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards. Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: 1. Review bias in research. 2. Review confounding in research. Course Directors: Tony R. Tarchichi MD — Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of...
info_outlineThis is the introduction to our journal club series. The next 14 episodes after this will discuss important and relevant topics in biostatistics, helping you understand and critically evaluate scholarly activity. To create these episodes we partnered with our good friends at University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School. This introductory episode is just me talking so there’s no CME attached to it. Our apologies for that. We hope you enjoy.