Introductory course on Epidemiology

Salzburg - Old city at night

March 4-6, 2006

Landgasthof Holznerwirt

A-5301 Eugendorf - Dorfstrasse 4

Salzburg, Austria

ERA-EDTA
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)

J. Cannata-Andia, ERA-EDTA President (Spain)

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).

Local Coordinator: R. Kramar

ERA-EDTA Coordinator: K. Jager E-mail: k.j.jager@amc.uva.nl

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Saturday 4 March
14.30	Course presentation (lecture) C. Zoccali
14.45	Measuring disease occurrence (lecture) R. Kramar
15.15	Measuring disease occurence (hands on session) K. Jager
15.30	Measuring disease occurrence (hands on session) P. van Dijk, V. Stel
16.15	Coffee break
16.30	Cohort and case control studies (lecture) V. Stel
17.15	Study design (hands on session) F. Dekker
18.30	Session end

Sunday 5 March
9.00	Simple analysis of risk and prevalence data (lecture) R. Kramar
9.30	Bias and confounding in epidemiologic studies (lecture) F. Garcia-Lopez
10.15	Confounding (hands on session) K. Jager
10.30	Coffee break
10.45	Ways to address confounding: stratification and regression (lecture) K. Jager
11.30	Prediction and correction for confounding F. Dekker
12.15	Lunch
13.15	Introduction to SPSS: linear regression and stratification (hands on session) P. van Dijk, V. Stel, A. Kramer
14.30	Coffee break
14.45	Survival analysis I - Kaplan Meier (lecture) F. Dekker
15.45	Survival analysis I - Kaplan Meier (hands on session) P. van Dijk, V. Stel, A. Kramer
16.45	Session end

Monday 6 March
8.30	Survival analysis II - Cox regression (lecture) F. Dekker
9.30	Survival analysis II - Cox regression (hands on session) P. van Dijk, V. Stel, A. Kramer
11.00	Coffee break
11.15	Causal effects (lecture) C. Zoccali
12.00	Session end