Janout V
Ustav preventivního lékarství LF UP, Olomouc.
Cas Lek Cesk. 2003 Feb;142(2):67-9.
Contemporary medicine brings requirement of the best available research evidence for the physician's decision on the diagnosis, therapy, prognosis and prevention. Such evidence is provided by clinical epidemiology, which represents the application of principles of the epidemiological methodology into the problems of clinical medicine. The knowledge of basic principles of clinical epidemiology is essential for the use of information of published results of medical research and for their proper and critical interpretation.
当代医学要求医生在做出诊断、治疗、预后及预防决策时，依据可得的最佳研究证据。临床流行病学提供了此类证据，它将流行病学方法的原理应用于临床医学问题。掌握临床流行病学的基本原理，对于运用已发表的医学研究成果信息并进行恰当且批判性的解读至关重要。
