Skip Navigation



JAC Advance Access published online on July 26, 2006
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, doi:10.1093/jac/dkl300
This Article
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
58/3/489    most recent
dkl300v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Fraser, A.
Right arrow Articles by Johnson, A. P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Fraser, A.
Right arrow Articles by Johnson, A. P.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Editorial

Back to the basics: epidemiology in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherap

Abigail Fraser 1 *, Leonard Leibovici 1, David S. Reeves 1, and Alan P. Johnson 1

1 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 11 The Wharf, 16 Bridge Street, Birmingham B1 2JS, UK

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abigail Fraser, E-mail: abigail.fraser{at}bristol.ac.uk


  Abstract

Good epidemiological methods and appropriate statistical analysis are cornerstones of any valid, reliable and publishable epidemiological study. This editorial summarizes epidemiological studies published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (12 issues, May 2005--April 2006) with respect to study objective, type and design. A significant proportion of these studies started off with a single study group. Drawing on this finding, various methodological aspects of choosing a sampling frame and of sampling methods are reviewed.

Keywords: epidemiological studies; sampling frames; sampling methods; methodologies; statistics.
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.