Devel & Meas of Surgical Hlth Outcomes 1
SURG5001
The overall aim of this course is to provide participants with an understanding of key methodological concepts and issues needed to conduct high quality clinical and health services research. The course covers aspects of clinical epidemiology, outcome evaluation and health economic assessment with a focus on surgical research. The broad nature of the course will provide an introduction to key topics across these fields but may also serve as a means for participants to identify specific areas of interest that they would like to pursue in their own future research.Course content includes: sources of bias in surgical studies; study designs in surgical effectiveness research; RCTs and problems with RCTs in surgery; development and evaluation of outcome measures; cost effectiveness analyses; quality of life and utility measures; evaluation of screening and diagnostic tests and systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
Unit of study details
Unit of study level: Postgraduate
Credit points: 6
Commencing semesters: 1
Further unit of study information
Unit of study handbook: SURG5001
Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships
Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates
Available for study abroad and exchange: No