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Disease surveillance

Foundational SciencesBiostatistics, epidemiology, population health, and interpretation of the medical literatureEpidemiology and population healthDisease surveillance, outbreak investigation, and communicable disease transmission
USMLE® Step 1 ReviewBiostatistics, epidemiology, population health, and interpretation of the medical literatureEpidemiology and population healthDisease surveillance, outbreak investigation, and communicable disease transmission
USMLE® Step 2 ReviewBiostatistics, epidemiology, population health, and interpretation of the medical literatureBack to the Basic SciencesEpidemiology and population healthDisease surveillance, outbreak investigation, and communicable disease transmission

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Disease surveillance is the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting epidemiological data to monitor the spread of disease. This helps to predict and minimize the damage that harmful outbreaks can cause.

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Introduction to biostatistics

Introduction to biostatistics
Types of data
Mean, median, and mode

Epidemiology and population health

DALY and QALY
Disease surveillance
Modes of infectious disease transmission
Outbreak investigations
Vaccination and herd immunity
Incidence and prevalence
Direct standardization
Indirect standardization
Prevention
Kaplan-Meier survival analysis

Study design, types, and selection of studies

Case-control study
Clinical trials
Cohort study
Cross sectional study
Ecologic study
Placebo effect and masking
Randomized control trial
Sample size
Study designs

Measures of association

Attributable risk (AR)
Mortality rates and case-fatality
Odds ratio
Relative and absolute risk

Distributions of data

Normal distribution and z-scores
Range, variance, and standard deviation
Standard error of the mean (Central limit theorem)

Correlation and regression

Correlation
Linear regression
Logistic regression
Methods of regression analysis

Principles of testing and screening

Probability
Positive and negative predictive value
Sensitivity and specificity
Test precision and accuracy

Study interpretation and drawing conclusions from data

Bias in interpreting results of clinical studies
Bias in performing clinical studies
Confounding
Information bias
Interaction
Selection bias
Disease causality
Hypothesis testing: One-tailed and two-tailed tests
Chi-squared test
Fisher's exact test
Kappa coefficient
Mann-Whitney U test
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
One-way ANOVA
Paired t-test
Repeated measures ANOVA
Two-sample t-test
Two-way ANOVA
Type I and type II errors
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