HLSC 2P27 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confounding, Survival Analysis, Impact Factor

• School: Brock University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HLSC 2P27
• Professor: Carolynn Pietrangeli

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Study designs that use a secondary research approach: randomized control trial, community trial, cohort study, nested case-control study, nested case-cohort study, case-control study, cross-sectional study. Step 3: designing the study and collecting data: formulate study question, select study approach, design study and collect data, analyse data, report findings. Primary analysis study plan: develop a protocol, recruit study subjects, submit to ethics review, collect data. Secondary analysis study plan: select data source, submit to ethics review and procure permissions, collect data. Tertiary analysis: establish literature search strategy, screen literature for eligibility, compile relevant data from each publication. Step 4: analysing the data: formulate study question, select study approach, design and collect data, analyse data, report findings, the data analysis plan. Tabulate the characteristics of study populations and other data sources (e. g. published literature used in meta-analyses) Compare results in groups of study participants -case-control studies. U(cid:374)(cid:272)over the parti(cid:272)ipatio(cid:374) of a (cid:862)3rdvaria(cid:271)le(cid:863) that (cid:373)ay (cid:271)e respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)le for and/or contribute to the results.