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Registered
Charity No. 1060134 |
| CME course |
An introductory course on Epidemiology
Rome, Hotel Villa Vecchia
11-13 September
2004
This introductory course will provide an orientation to epidemiological research. Types of epidemiologic studies, measures of disease frequency and association and bias in epidemiologic research will be the focus of the course. The course will provide an overview of elements of data analysis including survival analysis. Hands on practical exercises by using statistical programs will be offered side to side to lectures.
Prerequisites:
Basic statistics. Familiarity with computer procedures.
Course sponsors: ERA-EDTA and Ortho Biotech, a Janssen-Cilag division
European
Council for Accreditation in CME in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (ECANDT
of the ERA-EDTA accredited by the European Accreditation Council for
CME - EACCME)
Chair-person: R. Coppo (Italy)
Secretary: A.L.M. De Francisco (Spain)
Members: J. Floege (Germany)
R.
Vanholder (Belgium)
A.
Wiecek (Poland)
C.
Zoccali (Italy)
F.
Locatelli, ERA-EDTA President (Italy)
CME
Courses Coordinators:
Basic Science and Clinical Nephrology: R. Coppo (Italy) and J. Floege (Germany)
Chronic Renal Failure, Hypertension and Clinical Epidemiology: C. Zoccali
(Italy) and G. London (France)
Dialysis:
R. Vanholder (Belgium) and S. Davies (UK)
Transplantation: C. Ponticelli (Italy), A. Torres (Spain) and K. Olgaard (Denmark)