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The Rochester Epidemiology Project Data Exploration Portal

The Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) has developed an interactive online web-based tool to explore patterns of prevalence and co-occurrence of diseases using data from the expanded REP medical –records linkage system. In a paper published in April 2018 in Preventing Chronic Diseases, the REP is described as a rapid, free of charge method to examine 717 diseases and conditions in a large mid-western population. The data are expected to be useful to three classes of users:
 

1) local communities for understanding the prevalence of all conditions in the region
 

2) other communities may use the information as benchmarks, particularly for rare conditions
 

3) Investigators can obtain preliminary data when considering further studies of the co-occurrence of diseases or

when assessing the feasibility of a community-based trial.

A new version of the data set allows users to choose from among 1,376 characteristics, including diagnosis based medical conditions, procedures and surgeries, prescription medications, and demographic characteristics. Users now have more flexibility to explore the relationships between characteristics.
The portal allows users to choose two characteristics, to summarize the prevalence of each separately by age and sex, and to explore the co-occurrence of the two characteristics. In addition, users are presented with shaded maps to help visualize the prevalence and co-occurrence of the two selected characteristics across the REP region.

To access the portal, visit:  https://tinyurl.com/y9zcqjsj

Epidemiology and Statistics Professor Lectures Available Online

David Kleinbaum, a retired professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, has created a “visual archive” on YouTube that provides a large collection of narrated video recordings of his course lectures, multi-media instructional materials, and more.

Kleinbaum retired from Emory in September 2017 after 25 years, preceded by 21 years at University of North Carolina. Also, he was a statistical consultant at the Centers of Disease Control in Atlanta for many years, and authored several textbooks and published journal articles on statistical and epidemiologic methods that are used/referenced worldwide. 

Kleinbaum has  had a long-time interest in the development of multi-media instructional materials that promote active, enjoyable and alternative learning.  He began such efforts in the 1970s culminating  in his 2015 electronic multimedia textbook ActivEpi Web on introductory and higher-level epidemiologic methods, which is available for free (http://activepi.herokuapp.com) .  Also, http://www.activepi.com not only provides details of the unique features of ActivEpi Web, but also contains freely downloadable PowerPoint presentations on all topics covered in ActivEpi Web. This website also contains free access for downloading a Spanish translation of ActivEpi, which is called ActivEpi Espanol (only for Windows computers), which can be used for epidemiology instruction throughout Latin America (and is also sponsored by PAHO).

To access the visual archive on YouTube, search for David Kleinbaum, click on the name, then click on playlists. The screen will show you playlists, including the following:

Correlated Data 2016 (video recordings of 10 classes)

Epi Modeling 2015 (video recordings of 20 classes)

Epi Modeling 2016 (video recordings of 10 classes- first half of course)

Introduction to Biostatistics: Distributions and Inference (10 narrated PowerPoint videos) ■

 


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