Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials

by Robert H. Fletcher, Suzanne W. Fletcher

This introduction to epidemiology helps medical, nursing, and pharmacy students develop a system to observe and assess outcomes in similar patient types, and then apply this knowledge of outcomes to improve future patient care. The Fourth Edition has been redesigned to enhance understanding with new illustrations, pedagogical tools, examples, and summary boxes. According to a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, "This is one of the few books truly written for students of clinical epidemiology...I've used it in the past and would do so in the future. The book is comprehensive and takes a practical approach to explaining important topics."

Genres: Nonfiction

252 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1982

Reviews

[Candace · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good resource for medical students not familiar with public health and needing crash course.

[Fares · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great resource to master the basics and a little bit of the advanced concepts in epidemiology and study design. A must read for those wanting to dive deeper in evidence based medicine. This is a required reading for many of the classes as part of PhDs, Master degrees, ... etc. Very well thought of by academics world wide.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I dunno why, but I really like epidemiology. I like using statistics to arrive at counter-intuitive explanations of things. It made me learn how to think more carefully and precisely. I should probably read this again sometime...

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good basic epidemiology book. Its short, concise, and simplified. I think it will make a great reference book for when I have a couple questions on epi concepts. It explained things in very basic understandable terms without going overboard on stats or jargon.