Technical Books

We are working on the detailed description of this book, we will update this section soon.

We are working on the detailed description of this book, we will update this section soon.

We are working on the detailed description of this book, we will update this section soon.

The goal of this technical review is to critically examine the issue of care coordination for children with special health care needs (CSHCN). Of particular interest is the knowledge base relating to those aspects of care coordination for CSHCN that are of greatest importance to current practice and policy challenges.

The book, Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation describes what federally funded programs have accomplished in understanding medical errors and implementing programs to improve patient safety over the last 5 years. The 140 articles in the 4-volume set cover a wide range of research paradigms, clinical settings, and patient populations.

This book provides some insight into the multiple factors that determine the quality and safety of health care as well as patient, nurse, and systems outcomes.

This note covers the following topics: Hx / ID / Biostatistics, Study Designs: RCTs, Cohorts, Study Designs: Ecologic, X-Sectional, Case-Control, Bias, Confounding, EBM: Introduction and Concepts, EBM: Sources and Searches, Dx: Sens / Spec, PPV, NPV, LR, Tx: NNT.

Evidence based medicine (EBM) is the conscientious, explicit, judicious and reasonable use of modern, best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The page has the following topics related to Evidence Based Medicine : Need for Evidence Based Approach in Making Decisions in Family Medicine, Difference Between Evidence Based Medicine and Evidence Based Health Care, Gap Between Research and Practice, Complexity of the Primary Health Care (Family Medicine), Classification of Evidence � Information Levels, How to Start: 5 Steps Process for Use of Evidence Oriented Approach in Family Medicine, Cohrane Collaboration and Cohrane Library, Practical Application, Conclusion.

The PDF has the following topics related to Evidence Based Medicine : What is Evidence Based Medicine?, Steps in EBM Process, Clinical Scenario, Construct a Well Built Clinical Question, Going Back to Maria, Type of Question: What Type of Study, Select the Appropriate Resource and Conduct the Search, Boolean Principle, Format of Journal Report, Evidence-based Family and Community Practice, Critical Appraisal of An Article on Diagnostics, Decision analysis, Case Scenario, Primary Validity Guides, Secondary Validity Guides, Sensitivity and Specificity, Likelihood Ratio, Critical appraisal of an article on therapeutics.

This note explains the following topics: Respiratory infections, Nutritional disorders, alimentary infections and percutaneous infections.

This note covers the following topics: Uses of Epidemiology, Two Broad Types of Epidemiology, The Epidemiologic Triangle, Epidemiologic Activities , Measuring Disease Occurrence, Direct Standardization of Measures of Disease Occurrence, Indirect standardization with examples in Stata, Measures of effect I Risk Difference and Attributable Fraction with examples in Stata.

This note explains the following topics: History of Epidemiology and Public Health, Disease Transmission, Measures of Morbidity, Measures of Mortality, Mortality in Different Populations, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Arteriosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease, Influenza.

This note covers Concept of Health and Disease, Infectious disease epidemiology, Disease prevention and control, Disease screening and Epidemics investigation.

This note describes introduction to epidemiology, The infectious disease process, Public health surveillance, Statistical measures, Displaying and interpreting epidemiologic variables, Interviewing and preparing an outbreak investigation report.

This note explains introduction to epidemiology, Frequency measures used in epidemiology, Measures of central location and dispersion, Organizing epidemiologic data, Public health surveillance and investigating an outbreak.