Postgraduate - UnitMPH5237 - Clinical measurement

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Offered	Alfred Hospital First semester 2013 (Day) Alfred Hospital First semester 2013 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Helen Ackland and Assoc Prof Alistair Nichol

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.

Outcomes

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%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Helen Ackland

Contact hours

15 Contact hours over 2 days

Off-campus attendance requirements

15 contact hours over 2 days

Co-requisites

Both MPH5040 and MPH5041

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/pgrad