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Epidemiological Methods in Studies of Symptoms in Advanced Disease
Author Bios
Why Study Advanced Disease?
Why Epidemiology?
Incidence and Prevalence
Using Incidence and Prevalence
Definition of a Case
Defining Time, Place, Person
Types of Study Design
Cross-Sectional Studies
Longitudinal Studies
Measurement
Bias
Selection Bias
Measurement Bias
Presenting and Interpreting Results
Currently selected selection: Practical Example
Calculating Prevalence
Conclusion

 

Chapter 19: Epidemiological Methods in Studies of Symptoms in Advanced Disease: Practical Example: Using Epidemiological Information to Estimate Need for Health Care Services

        

 

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Selection C Do a literature review.

Also correct, although it depends what you review. At this stage the only review that might be helpful would be to look at how other people have done a needs assessment because you don't know what else to do. You might find The Health Care Needs Assessment for Palliative and Terminal Care helpful (Higginson 1997). Franks (2000) used this approach. You might also find a lot of single studies which at this stage would be less helpful. Any other review would probably be best done a bit later on when you want to look at what models of palliative care to develop. At that stage you could appraise models of care that are relevent to your situation.

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