📄️ Quality of Care
Donabedian's paper discussion.
📄️ Design I
Research answers questions but interventions insert something new into the world (they disrupt the world).
📄️ Hypothesis Testing
We really want to know if our interventions actually caused things in the world. Associations/correlations are nice but establishing causality is nicer.
📄️ Quantitative Methods
A lot of this borrowed from Epi. Original focus on risk factors and development of diseases. Lots of methods adapted from clinical trials.
📄️ Experimental Study Design
In an experiment, the investigator assigns the exposure/intervention. These are only prospective in nature (think about it).
📄️ Time-Series Design
Anecdote: took ~17 years for a new method to enter clinical practice.
📄️ Research Data Analysis
Gather data -> Prep Data -> Analyze guided by research objectives -> Interpret.
📄️ Power and Sampling
ANOVA tells you difference between groups but doesn't tell you what the difference is. E.g. you have a control arm and two intervention arms.
📄️ Extras
Microrandomized Trials
📄️ Validity
General soundness and credibility of findings and conclusions.
📄️ Research Data Management
Data tables, entry, and querying.
📄️ Really Random Notes
Theories