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Matilde Filipa Monteiro Soares
Luís Filipe Ribeiro de Azevedo
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues
Mário Jorge Dinis Ribeiro
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Suitable for English-speaking students
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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
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Presencial
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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.
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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.
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Distributed evaluation with final exam
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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).
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Distributed evaluation with final exam: Practical assignments (50%);final exam (50%).
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Glasziou, P. Hunink, M. Siegel, J. Weeks, J. Pliskin, J. Elstein & A. Weinstein, M. ; Decision making in health and medicine. Integrating evidence and values. , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006
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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