Epidemiologic Methods
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IM GEN only; coord NIM with disease /epidemiol (IM); specify geog if pertinent; DF: EPIDEMIOL METHODS |
Epidemiologic Methods Categories.
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Contact Tracing - Identification of those persons (or animals) who have had such an association with an infected person, animal, or contaminated environment as to have had the opportunity to acquire the infection. Contact tracing is a generally accepted method for the control of sexually transmitted diseases. |
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Data Collection - Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data. |
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Disease Notification - Notification or reporting by a physician or other health care provider of the occurrence of specified contagious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV infections to designated public health agencies. The United States system of reporting notifiable diseases evolved from the Quarantine Act of 1878, which authorized the US Public Health Service to collect morbidity data on cholera, smallpox, and yellow fever; each state in the US has its own list of notifiable diseases and depends largely on reporting by the individual health care provider. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992) |
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Epidemiologic Research Design - The form and structure of analytic studies in epidemiologic and clinical research. |
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Epidemiologic Study Characteristics - Types and formulations of studies used in epidemiological and clinical research. |
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Epidemiology, Molecular - The application of molecular biology to the answering of epidemiological questions. The examination of patterns of changes in DNA to implicate particular carcinogens and the use of molecular markers to predict which individuals are at highest risk for a disease are common examples. |
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Statistics - The science and art of collecting, summarizing, and analyzing data that are subject to random variation. The term is also applied to the data themselves and to the summarization of the data. |
Epidemiologic Methods Definitions and Terms
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