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Course module: BMB501818
BMB501818
Advanced Diagnostic Research
Course info
Course codeBMB501818
EC1.5
Course goals
will follow at a later date
Content
Period (from-till): 10 February 2020 - 14 February 2020

Contact details: Educational Office Epidemiology
E-mail: msc-epidemiology@umcutrecht.nl

Registration:
https://epidemiology-education.nl/ – learning environment

Course coordinator:
rs. K. Jenniskens, Julius Center for Health Schiences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht.
email: K.Jenniskens@umcutrecht.nl

Course description:
Diagnostic research in the past focused particularly on estimating the sensitivity and specificity of individual diagnostic tests. This course will demonstrate that this so called ‘test research’ is not necessarily the same as diagnostic research. Furthermore, we will widen the horizon by proposing modern methods of diagnostic research and data analysis in which a patient’s test result can and should be considered in the context of other patient characteristics or test results. These methods enable 1. direct estimation of individual probabilities of disease presence based on all diagnostic information and 2. evaluation of the extent to which a particular diagnostic test has true added value in the clinical context. Also, conventional and advanced methods for systematic reviews of diagnostic tests will be presented.

Literature/study material used:
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Mandatory for students in own Master’s programme:
Might be for a specialization of Epidemiology & Epidemiology Postgraduate
 
Optional for students in other GSLS Master’s programme:
Yes
 
Prerequisite knowledge:
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