MPH2037 - Clinical measurement
6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL
Postgraduate Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Leader(s): Associate Professor M deCourten
Offered
Alfred Hospital First semester 2009 (Off-campus block of classes)
Alfred Hospital First semester 2009 (Day)
Alfred Hospital First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Synopsis
An overview of measures and issues in clinical research; sampling and inference; selecting items, reducing items and creating aggregate scores; inter-rater and intra-rater reliability; reliability and interval consistency of responses; assessing the validity of measures; responsiveness of measures to significant clinical change; strategies for gathering data; wording of questions and design of response categories; data entry and management and handling of missing data.
Objectives
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- apply measurement principles and methods in the critical assessment;
- develop measures employed in clinical and epidemiological research.
Assessment
Written/online weekly assessment tasks 50%
Final assignment 50%
Contact hours
2 contact hours per week
Off-campus attendance requirements
15 contact hours over 2 days