141st APHA Annual Meeting

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Epidemiologic Methods

Monday, November 4, 2013: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
The purpose of this session is to provide attendees with an update of the methodological capabilities currently being conducted in the field of epidemiology.
Session Objectives: Discuss the role of complex systems methods for causal inference in epidemiology Evaluate alternative methods for collecting ethnicity data when self-reported ethnicity is unavailable.

10:30am
Introductory Remarks
10:35am
Predictive accuracy of 29-comorbidity index for in-hospital deaths in US adult hospitalizations with a diagnosis of venous thromboembolism
James Tsai, MD, MPH, CPH, Karon Abe, PhD, Sheree Boulet, DrPH, Michele Beckman, MPH, W Craig Hooper, PhD and Althea Grant, PhD
10:52am
Formalizing the role of complex systems approaches in causal inference and epidemiology
Brandon Marshall, PhD and Sandro Galea, MD,DrPH
11:09am
Using a metapopulation epidemiologic model to estimate the exceedance probabilities of morbidity and mortality resulting from hypothetical influenza pandemic scenarios
Nita Madhav, MSPH
11:26am
Best practices for analyzing real-world data: Comparing methodologies for imputing ethnicity in a high volume urban clinic
Philip Storey, MD, MPH, Yang Dai, MS, Ann P. Murchison, MD, MPH, Laura Pizzi, PharmD, MPH, Lisa A. Hark, PhD, RD, Benjamin Leiby, PhD and Julia A. Haller, MD
11:43am
Concluding Remarks

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