Epidemiologic Methods for Acute Care Research

This is an advanced course addressing epidemiologic issues as they apply to important clinical topics in acute care, including emergency, hospital, and critical care medicine. Lectures and discussions will have two primary goals: 1) to explore epidemiologic methods specific to acute care settings (i.e., choice of outcomes, risk adjustment); and 2) to explore the epidemiology of particular diseases (e.g., sepsis, acute lung injury, hospital acquired infections) and research questions of current importance in these areas. This course will acquaint students with the classic literature in the field of adult and pediatric urgent care, emergency medicine, and critical care epidemiology, teach advanced epidemiologic principles using a problem-based approach, and demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of epidemiologic research methodologies as they have been applied to acute care.