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Perspectives of clinical epidemiology in Korea

한국의 임상역학 발전 방향

  • Bae, Jong-Myon (Department of Preventive Medicine, Jeju National University School of Medicine) ;
  • Park, Byung-Joo (Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Ahn, Yoon-Ok (Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
  • 배종면 (제주대학교 의학전문대학원) ;
  • 박병주 (서울대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실) ;
  • 안윤옥 (서울대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실)
  • Received : 2012.03.05
  • Accepted : 2013.04.03
  • Published : 2013.08.01
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Abstract

The establishment of clinical epidemiology has meant the improvement of the quality and quantity of clinical science because clinical epidemiology has contributed to the process of decision making across the full scope of clinical practice, including diagnosis, treatment, and care, as well as prevention. Epidemiological and statistical methodologies have been used to analyze scientific evidence on clinical problems. The orientation of evidence-based medicine introduced in the mid-1990s is the application of clinical epidemiology to clinical practice for individual patients. The concept of evidence-based medical practice has triggered the expansion of the scope and range of methods of clinical epidemiology. In spite of the global situation, the formal activity in the area of clinical epidemiology in Korean Medical Academic Association is negligible, with few clinical epidemiologists involved. One of several approaches to stimulating the practice of clinical epidemiology in Korea would be to foster clinical epidemiology as a specialization of clinical preventive medicine, which is one of the sub-specialties of preventive medicine in Korea.

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