MPO 6420 Applied Clinical Research
Applied Clinical Research (1). This course is designed to introduce or reintroduce students to the basic and advanced concepts, techniques, and principles of critical inquiry using applied clinical research. The focus will be on understanding quantitative aspects of clinical research literature. Topics to be investigated include measurement theory and the scientific method; the research process, experimental design, hypothesis construction and testing, measurement scales, sampling, indices of validity and reliability, statistical analyses, and critical evaluation of occupational language of statistics and what those statistics mean.