Links

BIOSTATISTICS

  • Statistics at Square One
  • Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive
  • MedPage Guide to Biostatistics
  • Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Resources on statistical analysis with R, SAS, SPSS, STATA and M Plus http://stats.idre.ucla.edu/

 

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE

  • Centre  of Evidence-based Dermatology (CEBD) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/cebd/index.aspx
  • Clinical evidence website www.clinicalevidence.com
  • Consider joining the collaboration and writing a co-authoring systematic review in your area
    Cochrane Skin Group Welcome Page
  • COUSIN https://www.uniklinikum-dresden.de/COUSIN
  • Evidence-based dermatology textbook www.evidbasedderm.com

 

EPIDEMIOLOGY

  • Epidemiology for the uninitiated (4th edition)
  • Epidemiology website of the World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Supercourse (Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health)
  • People’s Epidemiology Library (History of Epidemiologic Ideas, Methods, and Concepts)
  • ENCEPP – European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance. Guide on methodological standards in pharmacoepidemiology http://www.encepp.eu/standards_and_guidances/methodologicalGuide.shtml
  • ISPOR – International Society for Pharmocoeconomics and Outcomes Research. International digest of databases https://www.ispor.org/DigestOfIntDB/CountryList.aspx
  • OHDSI – Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics. Open source tools for large scale analytics www.ohdsi.org
  • Daggity – an online tool for causal diagrams, also known as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG)  http://www.dagitty.net/

 

EPIDEMIOLOGY GROUPS IN RELATED SOCIETIES

  • American Dermato-Epidemiology Network (ADEN)
    http://adenet.us
  • European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Epidemiology Interest Group:
    http://www.eaaci.org/organisation/eaaci-interest-groups/epidemiology-ig/about-us.html
  • National Institute for Clinical Excellence (UK)
    http://www.nice.org.uk
  • Netherlands Institute of Health Sciences
  • British Epidermo-Epidemiology Society (BEES)
  • Consider joining this group to promote EBM and dermato-epidemiology
    International DermatoEpidemiology Association (IDEA)
  • Global Resource of EczemA Trials
    www.greatdatabase,org.uk
  • The UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network (UK DCTN)
    www.ukdctn.org
  • Harmonising outcome parameters for eczema
    www.homeforeczema.org