Biostatistics course

Duration: 5 Hours and 30 Minutes

Certificate of Completion:

Provided immediately upon successful completion.

Biostatistics Description: Using real examples from the medical literature, this course will introduce you to clinical research and applied statistics. This course will prepare you to critically read and understand the medical literature.

Accreditation: GeneEd designates this educational activity for a maximum of 5.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.

GeneEd, Inc. is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality/California Medical Association (IMQ/CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. GeneEd, Inc. takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

In addition to physicians, GeneEd Online Training Courses are also applicable for nurses (RNs), doctors (MD and PhDs), clinical research associates (CRAs or monitors), clinical research coordinators (CRCs), investigators, researchers, bioprocess / biomanufacturing workers, QA/QC managers, other healthcare professionals and for patient education.

Biostatistics

OUTLINEINTRODUCTION

1. Course Information

2. Interface Tour

3. Course Overview

THE RESEARCH QUESTION

4. Objectives

5. Pre-test

6. The Empirical Cycle

7. Exploratory vs. Confirmatory Studies

8. The Research Hypothesis

9. Target Population vs. Study Population

10. Progress Check

STUDY DESIGN

11. Objectives

12. Pre-test

13. Casual Inference

14. Bias and Confounding

15. Cross-sectional studies

16. Case-control studies

17. Cohort studies

18. Randomized clinical trials

19. Meta-analysis

20. Progress Check

TYPES OF MEASUREMENTS

21. Objectives

22. Pre-test

23. Variation

24. Continuous

25. Categorical

26. Time-to-event

27. Diagnostic Testing

28. Progress Check

STATISTICAL INFERENCE

29. Objectives

30. Pre-test

31. Hypothesis Testing

32. Power and Sample Size

33. Confidence Intervals

34. Multiple Comparisons

35. Progress Check

STATISTICAL ANALYSES I

36. Objectives

37. Pre-test

38. Intention to treat Analysis

39. Predictors and Outcomes

STATISTICAL ANALYSES II

40. Analysis for Continuous Outcome

41. Analysis for Categorical Outcome

42. Analysis for Time-to-event Outcome

43. Progress Check

CONCLUSION

44. Summary

OBJECTIVES: Students completing this course, Biostatistics, should be able to:

Describe the empirical cycle.

Differentiate between hypothesis-generating and hypothesis-testing studies.

Formulate a research hypothesis.

Identify the research hypothesis in a given study.

Identify the predictor and outcome in a given study.

Define target population, study population, and study sample.

Describe the different types of studies used in medical research.

Recognize the advantages and limitations of the different study designs.

Identify sources of bias in different study designs.

Describe the relative strength of each type of study design in establishing causality.

Describe sources of variation in medical data.

Differentiate between continuous and categorical data.

Define time-to-event data. Define mean and standard deviation.

Identify how data were measured in real studies.

Describe how diagnostic tests are evaluated.

Define and calculate sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value, and positive predictive value.

Describe sampling variation.

Formulate a null hypothesis.

Interpret a p-value.

Define type I and type II errors.

Differentiate between statistical and clinical significance.

Understand statistical power. Interpret a confidence interval.

Describe the problem of multiple comparisons.

Describe the intention-to-treat principle.

Explain last observation carried forward.

Calculate odds ratios and risk ratios.

Interpret odds ratios, risk ratios, and hazard ratios.

Understand the results of simple statistical tests.

Recognize the names of more advanced statistical tests.

Identify the appropriate statistical test for a given study design and type of data.

Understand common pitfalls in medical statistics.

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