Journal Reading

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Natural Progression of Epidemiology Study

• Suspicion
• Hypothesis formulation
• Hypothesis testing
• Determination of statistical relationship
• Exclusion of alternative explanations
• Determination of cause-and-effect relationship

Journalism	Epidemiology
who	person
what	disease
where	place
when	time
how	etiology

 

The empiric epidemiologic paper : 

• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion

 

Introduction

1. What is the scope of the problem?
2. What do we know about the problem?
3. What do we not know about the problem?
4. What is the purpose of this paper?

Methods

• Sample - Location, time, population, data collection, methods, IRB approval, study design
• Variables - Discuss each variable used in analysis
  1. exposure
  2. health outcome
  3. confounding factors
  4. effect modification
• Analysis - Step-by-step analysis

Results

• Table 1 shows...
• Figure 1 shows...
• Table 2 shows...

As you read papers...

• What is the study population?
• What is study design?
• How was exposure assessed?
• What statistical models yielded results reported in figures and tables?
• How were confounding and effect modification assessed?

Discussion

1. Summary of study results (i.e., "This population-based study showed...")
2. How this study builds on previous knowledge
   • "This study is consistent with previous work..."
   • "This study differs from previous work..."
   • "Explanations for these findings..."
3. Limitations / Strength
4. Conclusions / Implications
   • "Notwithstanding these limitations..."
   • "Implications of this work are..."