García PF, Peñaloza LY

Language: Spanish
References: 28
Page: 44-56
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ABSTRACT

The objective of the present article is to revise some principles and applications of the clinical epidemiology in the clinical practice of the doctors that assist people with dysfunctions of the audition. After considering the terms, the parallelism of the epidemiology and the clinic method in the individual and collective health of the populations is shown. They are listed, discussed and put on clinical examples in the specific areas where the clinical epidemiology dysfunctions of the audition can be useful in the medical personnel’s practice. The areas are: The epidemiology description of the dysfunctions of the audition in the community; the epidemic surveillance and the appearance of “outbreak of dysfunctions of the audition”; search of the etiology or risk factors; detection or diagnostic tests; development and/or evaluation of new treatments; prediction of the clinical evolution of people, and search of prediction factors of the evolution of the patients. The dysfunctions of the audition like a problem of public health in Mexico, are in definition process. It is necessary to know its accurate epidemiology. In this context, the contribution that can make the practice of the clinical epidemiology of the suffering, on the part of the medical personnel, will contribute in decisive form to its collective identification, at the same time of improving the quality of medical care and of the patient’s life in our country.

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