271625 Nuts and bolts of epidemiologic investigations II — Threats to validity: Confounding, bias, interaction, causal relationships

Sunday, October 28, 2012 : 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

Dr. Joy P. Nanda, DSc, MS, MHS, MBA , Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (Ret), Johns Hopkins University (Ret), Baltimore, MD
During this session, participants will learn the concepts of confounding. bias, interaction when evaluating causal relationships in epidemiologic investigations

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Evaluate quality and strength epidemiological studies and 2. Compare tools to evaluate the validity of epidemiological studies

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have extensive training, teaching and research experience in epidemiology and public health and have taught (and administered/facilitated) this LI several times in the past
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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