Outcomes research seeks to identify effective evidence-based methods of providing the best medical care. While randomized clinical trials (RCT) usually provide the clearest answers, they are often not done or not practicable. More than a decade after the introduction of calcium channel blockers and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, clinical trial data about their effect on major d...

ABDISSA NEGASSA∗, ANTONIO CIAMPI†, MICHAL ABRAHAMOWICZ†,‡, STANLEY SHAPIRO† and JEAN-FRANÇOIS BOIVIN†,§ ∗Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx NY, USA [email protected] †Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada ‡Clinical Epidemiology, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Can...

Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia (IPEH), also known as Masson tumor–a rare, benign vascular lesion typically presenting in the skin a subcutaneous nodule – may be clinically mistaken for other neoplasms such hemangiomas and lipomas. IPEH is classically categorized into three types:1) pure type arising dilated endovascular spaces; 2) mixed developing from preexisting abnormalities...

From the Diabetes Epidemiology and Clinical Research Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Phoenix, AZ (P.W.F., R.L.H., W.C.K., M.L.S., P.H.B., H.C.L.); the Genetic Epidemiology and Clinical Research Group, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section for Medicine, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden (P.W.F.); ...

Clinical epidemiology versus public health epidemiology Epidemiology is growing, and so is the need for developing subspecialties. One subspecialty which has achieved a certain prominence is clinical epidemiology. The term had already been coined in 1938,1 and although it has many different interpretations,2 the growing number of textbooks providing an introduction to the area shows that it has...