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ERA-EDTA |
Introductory Course on
Epidemiology
February 23-24, 2010
European Council for Accreditation in CME in
Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (ECANDT of
the ERA-EDTA accredited
by the European Accreditation Council for CME -
EACCME).
| Chair-person |
R. Coppo (Italy) |
| Secretary |
A. L. M. De Francisco (Spain) |
| Members |
J. Floege (Germany), R. Vanholder (Belgium),
A. Wiecek (Poland)
C. Zoccali (Italy), G. London, ERA-EDTA
President (France) |
| Local Coordinator |
Fernando Carrera |
| ERA-EDTA Coordinators |
K. Jager and M. Noordzij (The
Netherlands) |
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Tuesday, February 23 |
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8:30 |
Registration |
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9.00 |
Welcome |
F. Carrera |
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9.05 |
Course introduction |
K. Jager |
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9.15 |
L1: Measuring disease occurrence (lecture) |
R. Kramar |
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9.45 |
H1: Measuring disease occurrence I (hands-on
session) |
K. Jager |
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10.00 |
H2: Measuring disease occurrence II (hands-on
session) |
A. Kramer, M. van de Luijtgaarden, K.
van Stralen |
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10.30 |
Coffee break |
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10.45 |
L2: Cohort and case control studies (lecture) |
K. van Stralen |
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11.30 |
H3: Study design (hands-on session) |
F. Dekker |
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12.45 |
Lunch |
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13:45 |
L3: Simple analysis of risk and
prevalence data (lecture) |
R. Kramar |
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14.15 |
L5: Bias and confounding in
epidemiologic studies (lecture) |
A. Macleod |
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15.00 |
H4: Confounding (hands-on session) |
K. Jager |
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15.15 |
Coffee break |
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15.45 |
L6: Ways to address confounding:
stratification and
regression (lecture) |
K. Jager |
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16:30 |
H5: Stratification (hands-on session) |
A. Kramer, M. van de Luijtgaarden, K.
van Stralen |
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17.00 |
Session end |
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Wednesday, February 24 |
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8:30 |
L7: Prediction and correction for
confounding (lecture) |
F. Dekker |
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9.30 |
H6: Introduction to SPSS: linear
regression (hands-on session) |
A. Kramer, M. van de Luijtgaarden, K.
van Stralen |
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10.30 |
Coffee break
Picture |
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11.00 |
L8: Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (lecture) |
F. Dekker |
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12.00 |
H7: Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (hands-on
session) |
A. Kramer, M. van de Luijtgaarden, K.
van Stralen |
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13.00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
L8: Survival analysis II – Cox
regression (lecture) |
F. Dekker |
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15.00 |
H8-1: Survival analysis II – part 1,
survival curves (hands-on session) |
A. Kramer, M. van de Luijtgaarden, K.
van Stralen |
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15.30 |
Coffee break |
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16.00 |
H8-2: Survival analysis II – part 2, Cox
regression (hands-on session) |
A. Kramer, M. van de Luijtgaarden, K.
van Stralen |
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17:00 |
L9: Various |
F. Dekker |
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17.45 |
Session end |
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Course Faculty |
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Kitty Jager |
ERA-EDTA Registry Director and Senior
Epidemiologist (Course Coordinator) |
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Friedo Dekker |
ERA-EDTA Registry Senior Epidemiologist |
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Reinhard Kramar |
Former ERA-EDTA Registry Committee
Member |
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Anneke Kramer |
ERA-EDTA Registry Programmer and
Scientist |
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Moniek van de Luijtgaarden |
ERA-EDTA Registry Programmer and
Scientist |
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Alison Macleod |
Former ERA-EDTA Registry Committee
Member |
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Karlijn van Stralen |
ERA-EDTA Registry Epidemiologist |
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