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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 part of our annual series at the Pediatric Hospital Medicine National Conference where we ask some of the conference attendees to join us to discuss which sessions of the conference they went to and learned. Today we are lucky enough to be joined by Drs. Victoria LeBlanc, Chrissy Hrach, Nancy Chen, Lana Ismail, Maha Kaissi, Tamara Gayle & Patricia Tran. This episode is not associated with CME, we apologize for any inconvienence associated with that.