Bias And Confounding In Epidemiologic Literature: Please provide the assignment

Bias And Confounding In Epidemiologic Literature: To Prepare:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on how to recognize and distinguish selection bias, information bias, confounding, and random error in research studies.
• Select a health issue and population relevant to your professional practice and a practice gap that may exist related to this issue.
• Consider how each type of measurement error may influence data interpretation in epidemiologic literature and how you might apply the literature to address the identified practice gap.
• Consider strategies you might use to recognize these errors and the implications they may have for addressing gaps in practice relevant to your selected issue.

By Day 3 of Week 6

Post a cohesive scholarly response that addresses the following:

• Describe your selected practice gap.
• Explain how your treatment of this population/issue could be affected by having awareness of bias and confounding in epidemiologic literature.
• Explain two strategies researchers can use to minimize these types of bias in studies, either through study design or analysis considerations.
• Finally, explain the effects these biases could have on the interpretation of study results if not minimized.

By Day 6 of Week 6

Respond to at least two colleagues on two different days in one or more of the following ways:

• Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research.
• Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
• Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
• Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.
• Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
• Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.