Respiratory System

Hey dears,

Click here to download the timetable for Respi. It's 4 weeks. 

Also, our Air Topic is: 

Smoking Habits in Lung Cancer Patients: A Hospital Based Case-Control Study in İzmir, Turkey
Sibel Kara, MD¹; Ufuk Yılmaz, MD¹; Gülru Polat, MD¹; Gülay Utkaner, MD¹; Gül Ergör, MD²; Timur Köse³

¹Department of Respiratory Medicine, İzmir Chest Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey
²Department of Public Health, Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey
³Department of Computer Engineering, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey

Specific instructions to students:

Do a critical appraisal on the above study using the following format:

1.         Objective
2.         Design
3.         Paricipants
4.         Precision
5.         Internal Validity
            a.         selection bias
            b.         information bias
            c.         confounding
6.         analysis
7.         Results
8.         Conclusions
9.         External Validity

Your appraisal should NOT exceed 300 words.

References:

(a)        Turkish Respiratory Journal
            August2004, Volume 5, Number2, Page(s) 102-109
(b)        Any website on critical appraisal

Deadline for student submission:

FRIDAY, 13 MARCH 2009 @ 9.00AM

Name of content expert: Dr Verasingam

Loads of love and cheers,
Zia