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 2014 (Day) Alfred Hospital First semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Helen Ackland

Synopsis

Aimed at students with clinical experience, this unit presents an overview of clinical outcome measurement in research, with a focus on qualitative measurement. The areas covered include issues in qualitative measurement, selecting, reducing and scaling items, questionnaire design, assessing reliability and validity, responsiveness of measures to clinically important change, quality of life measures and statistical concepts in the testing and reporting of clinical measurement tools.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Appreciate the process of the development of outcome measurement tools in clinical and epidemiological research
Select appropriate tools for the measurement of patients outcomes in clinical and epidemiological research
Apply measurement theory to the critical assessment of clinical measurement tools