ABSTRACT

While veterinary medicine has always valued the concepts and methods of epidemiology, they are virtually inseparable in today's clinical practice. With access to an ever-expanding number of journals, as well as countless Internet sources, more and more veterinarians are practicing evidence-based medicine. This is defined as the process of sy

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|20 pages

Defining the limits of normality

chapter 3|20 pages

Evaluation of diagnostic tests

chapter 4|18 pages

Use of diagnostic tests

chapter 5|20 pages

Measuring the commonness of disease

chapter 6|20 pages

Risk assessment and prevention

chapter 7|16 pages

Measuring and communicating prognoses

chapter 8|10 pages

Design and evaluation of clinical trials

chapter 9|26 pages

Statistical significance

chapter 10|6 pages

Medical ecology and outbreak investigation

chapter 11|14 pages

Measuring and expressing occurrence

chapter 12|14 pages

Establishing cause

chapter 13|20 pages

Source and transmission of disease agents

chapter 14|16 pages

The cost of disease