Evidence and Decision Making


Matilde Filipa Monteiro Soares

Luís Filipe Ribeiro de Azevedo

Pedro Pereira Rodrigues

Mário Jorge Dinis Ribeiro

Suitable for English-speaking students


Describe the concept and framework of decision in health care and biomedical research, according to the research topic;

Describe the basic structure of decision in health care;

Perform a step-by-step approach to decision in health care;

Identify options and alternatives;

Integrate evidence in decision analysis process


Presencial
Decision in health care and biomedical research – definition and setting: in Technologies Assessment, in Health Services Research and in Clinical Research.

Structure and step-by-step guide for decision in health care: problem and objectives, alternatives and consequences according to evidence, integration, analysis and valuation

Definitions and basic issues of evidence in health research: evidence levels according to study design and research problems.

Integration of evidence in the decision process: critical analysis and interpretation of diagnostic tests studies, prognostic and intervention studies.


Theoretical analysis of each topic described for the curricular unit;

Literature review;

Individual and group resolution of practical assignments;

Group discussion.

An optimized platform for e-learning will be used.


Distributed evaluation with final exam

Presence in 75% of the classes.
To be approved the student will have to obtain a minimum grade of 9.5 (in a scale 0-20) in the the final grade of the course (50% Final Written Examination + 50% Practical Work).

Distributed evaluation with final exam: Practical assignments (50%);final exam (50%).

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Straus, S.E., Glasziou, P., Richardson, W.S., & Haynes, R.B. ; Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach It (4th Edition). , Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone., 2010
Harris, M., Taylor, G., & Jackson, D.; Clinical Evidence Made Easy: The basics of evidence-based medicine. , Banbury: Scion Publishing Ltd., 2014
Fletcher, R. H., Fletcher, S.W., & Fletcher, G. S.; Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials (5th Edition). , Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014
Haynes, R.B., Sackett, D.L., Guyatt, G.H., & Tugwell, P.; Clinical epidemiology: how to do clinical practice research (3rd edition). , Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006

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