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Cerebral Swordsmanship

UNSOM I.M. Residency Journal Club

2006-2007

 

 

 

Next Journal Club: Noon, Thursday, May 31, RRMC Classroom 102

Lunch provided; cosponsored by Merck

 

This month's challenge:

“Quadrivalent Vaccine against Human Papillomavirus

to Prevent High-Grade Cervical Lesions”

FUTURE II STUDY, NEJM 2007; 356 (May 10):1915

 

 

Editorial, NEJM

Related Story on PREVENTION, Wall Street Journal, May 10

Related Story on potential RISKS, Wall Street Journal, May 24

 

 

 

1.    Overview of PREVENTIVE SERVICES (10 min):  Dr. Andal

 

2.    NEUTRAL overview of paper (hypothesis, methods, results, conclusions) (10 min):  Dr. Clark

 

3.    PRO: Continue to promote HPV vaccine as a public health measure! (10 min):  Dr. Thai

 

4.    CON: Inference to real US population is flawed (see Editorial)—money could be better spent on other public health measures (10 min):  Dr. Brock

 


CRITICAL APPRAISAL RESOURCES

McMaster Guides to Evaluating the Literature

Basic Definitions of Observational Studies, Clinical Trials, Bias & Validity

The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice

U of Michigan Tutorials on Diagnostic, Therapeutic, Prognostic, & Meta-analysis Studies

Internet (incl. Boolean) Tutorials from Univ at Albany

Online Basic Statistics Tutorials and Examples (Rice University)

Simple(!) Online Interactive Statistical Calculations


Questions or suggestions:  goodman @ unr.edu