HEALTHCARE EPIDEMIOLOGY

Catalog description

Explores healthcare from an epidemiologic perspective, including current research, controversial issues, and methodological problems. Covers a variety of healthcare-related topics such as evidence-based medicine, institutional infection control, medical errors, screening and diagnostic testing, cost-effectiveness, randomized controlled trials and the FDA approval process, and others related to the delivery and assessment of healthcare. Focuses on the US healthcare system specifically, including how biases and inequities currently inherent in that system affect outcomes and care received.