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Registered
Charity No. 1060134 |
| CME course |
An introductory course on Epidemiology
Rome, Hotel Villa Vecchia
11-13 September
2004
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
| 11 September | |
| 14.00 | Course presentation |
| The Chairman of the ERA-EDTA Registry | |
| 14.15 | Measuring Occurrence of Disease (R. Kramar) |
| 15.00 | Coffee Break |
| 15.45 | Exercise "Occurrence of Disease" (P. van Dijk and V. Stel) |
| 16.30 | Effects: Causal effects (C. Zoccali) |
| 17.15 | Session end |
| 12 September | |
| 09.00 | Cohort and Case Control Studies (C. Wanner) |
| 09.45 | Exercise "Study design" |
| 10.30 | Bias and confounding in epidemiologic studies (A. MacLeod) |
| 11.15 | Coffee break |
| 11.45 | Simple analysis of risk and prevalence data (R. Kramar) |
| 12.30 | The importance of data stratification for controlling confounding (K. Jager) |
| 13.15 | Buffet Lunch |
| 14.45 | Regression and correlation analysis (K. Jager) |
| 15.30 | The use of statistical software in epidemiologic studies: hands on session |
| (P. van Dijk and V. Stel) | |
| 17.00 | Coffee break |
| 17.30 | Survival analysis I. Introductory notes and Kaplan Meyer method (F. Dekker) |
| 18.30 | Session end |
| 13 September | |
| 09.00 | Kaplan Meyer: Hands on session on survival analysis I (P. van Dijk and V. Stel) |
| 10.00 | Survival analysis II. Cox's regression (F. Dekker) |
| 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.30 | Cox regression: Hands on session on survival analysis II (P. van Dijk and V. Stel) |
| 13.00 | Session and course end |
| Faculty: | |
| Carmine Zoccali, ERA-EDTA Registry Chairman (Course Director) | |
| Friedo Dekker, ERA-EDTA Registry Senior Epidemiologist | |
| Paul van Dijk, ERA-EDTA Registry Programmer and Scientist | |
| Kitty Jager, ERA-EDTA Registry Director and Epidemiologist (Course Coordinator) | |
| Reinhard Kramar, ERA-EDTA Registry Committee Member | |
| Alison MacLeod, ERA-EDTA Registry Committee Member | |
Vianda Stel, ERA-EDTA Registry Epidemiologist |
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| Christoph Wanner, ERA-EDTA Registry Committee Member | |
Course book: Kenneth J. Rothman. Epidemiology: an Introduction. |
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| Published by Oxford University Press in 2002. | |
| ISBN 0-19-513554-7 | |
| Course sponsors: ERA-EDTA and Ortho Biotech, a Janssen-Cilag division | |