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Teaching EpidemiologyA guide for teachers in epidemiology, public health and clinical medicine$
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Teaching Epidemiology: A guide for teachers in epidemiology, public health and clinical medicine

Jørn Olsen, Naomi Greene, Rodolfo Saracci, and Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9780199685004

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2015

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685004.001.0001

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Study design

Study design

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(p.37) Chapter 3 Study design
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Teaching Epidemiology
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Jørn Olsen

Olga Basso

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685004.003.0003

The aim of this chapter is to provide guidelines for designing a study and to stress that design issues are closely related to the aim of the study and the available options for doing the study. Observational epidemiology rely on information in populations, generated by causal relations and conditions related to data collection and sampling. A trial provides the opportunity to shape this experience in a way that will reduce sources of bias seen in observational research. Classification of designs and the most frequent method problems are presented and discussed. Ten key lectures are listed as well as a set of key references.

Keywords:   study, design, observational research, causal mechanisms, bias

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