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Epidemiology, which focuses on population health, is contrasted in this basic introduction against outcomes research, with its focus on individual patients. However, similar outcome measures and research designs are often employed in both domains. The utility of important research design concepts, as well as confounding and other typical limitations inherent in each methodological approach, is discussed.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Michael Andreae

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  1. Pain Medicine Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Yury Khelemsky

  2. Pain Medicine Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Anuj Malhotra

  3. Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA

    Karina Gritsenko

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Andreae, M. (2019). Epidemiology. In: Khelemsky, Y., Malhotra, A., Gritsenko, K. (eds) Academic Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18005-8_9

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