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Clinical epidemiology is a discipline that attempts to bring the analytical techniques of classical epidemiology to the primary clinical setting, to study questions of medical decision-making, resource utilization and quality and efficacy of care. As such, it moves away from the health policy arena and large, population-based demographic analyses, to deal with issues affecting the practice of medicine by the primary care physician.
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Sax, F.L., Charlson, M.E. (1990). The Use of Clinical Judgment to Evaluate the Therapeutic Efficacy of Critical Care Units. In: Bergerhoff, P., Lehmann, D., Novak, P. (eds) Primary Health Care. Health Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83240-6_6
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