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EULAR NEWS
Report of EULAR Standing Committee on Epidemiology and Health Services Research: Lisbon, June 2003
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In recent years at the EULAR annual congresses the standing committee has put together several interactive workshops on methodological issues in clinical epidemiology. This year we offered a mini-symposium on practical issues in descriptive epidemiological studies in the EULAR region. The symposium aimed at obtaining knowledge on various available sources, methods, and screening instruments; understanding the goals, advantages, and pitfalls of the various methods; contributing to the improvement and updating of knowledge on the distribution and determinants of rheumatic disease; and facilitating the generation of hypotheses.
In the autumn of 2001 the standing committee organised a successful course on clinical epidemiology, including clinical trials and selected topics. This was done in close cooperation with the Standing Committee for Education and Training and the Standing Committee for International clinical Studies, Including therapeutic Trials (ESCISIT). The EULAR executive board has agreed to support a second course in the spring of 2005. The
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