Source: Journal of Urban Health
Type: PDF Document
Level: Advanced
Description: This articles assesses the function of IRBs in CBPR in protecting individuals with less emphasis on risk-reduction for communities.
Source: Health Research & Educational Trust
Type: Online Article
Level: Advanced
Description: This document summarizes the importance of using data to improve quality of care and reduce health care disparities.Author: Health Research & Educational Trust in partnership with AHA.
Source: Center for Community Health Development School of Rural Public Health Texas A&M–HSC
Type: Electronic Power Point Presentation
Level: Advanced
Description: This presentation summarizes the results of analysis of secondary data to provide information on baseline health status of the Brazos Valley Region of Texas. Presenter: Jane Bolin
Source: Journal of Interprofessional Care
Type: Electronic Paper
Level: Intermediate
Description: This article provides a case study of the challenges of community-academic partnerships and suggested solutions. Authors: Jan Shoultz, Mary Frances Oneha, Lois Magnussen, Mya Moe Hla, Zavi Brees-Saunders, Marissa Dela Cruz, Margaret Douglas.
Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Type: PowerPoint & Lecture Materials
Level: Introductory
Description: Provides a broad understanding of the application of biostatistics in a regulatory context. Reviews the relevant regulations and guidance documents. Includes topics such as basic study design, target population, comparison groups, and endpoints. Addresses analysis issues with emphasis on the regulatory aspects, including issues of missing data and informative censoring. Discusses safety monitoring, interim analysis and early termination of trials with a focus on regulatory implications.
Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Type: PowerPoint / Lecture Materials
Level: Advanced
Description: Quantitative study on principles of path analysis, casual inference, measurement models, and other relevant topics to social sciences.
Source: Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Type: Online Course
Level: Advanced
Description: “After completing this lecture, you will be able to:
Show how the probability of a diagnosis is affected by a test result, sensitivity, and specificity
Describe how evidence can be integrated using decision trees
Illustrate the concept of threshold probabilities and their implications
Discuss how sensitivity analyses are performed and what they mean
Explain how patient preferences (utilities or values) can be integrated into patient-centered choices using decision analysis
Identify different types of economic analyses in comparative effectiveness research
Explain how to calculate incremental cost-effectiveness
List how cost-effectiveness analysis is being used for technology assessment”
Source: Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Type: Online Course
Level: Advanced
Description: “After completing this lecture, you will be able to:
Identify the limitations of applying the overall results of clinical trials to individual patients
Discuss how summary results of individual trials might not even reflect the benefits of typical patients in the trial
Explain how subgroup analyses are prone both to false-positive and false-negative results
Illustrate approaches that might lead to more credible and actionable subgroup results
Express why multidimensional risk models may have advantages over conventional “one-variable-at-a-time” subgroup analysis
Determine some of the limitations of using genetic information as a basis for exploring heterogeneity of treatment effect”
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