AOSSM/AAOS Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Review Course-Sports Medicine Research

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In this video, Bruce Miller, a sports medicine surgeon at the University of Michigan, discusses his approach to evaluating medical literature in a scientific way. He emphasizes the importance of understanding statistical concepts and how they apply to research studies. Miller discusses various topics, including the expected size of effect, clinical relevance, applicability, external validity, control groups, outcome measures, sample size estimation, power, type 1 and type 2 errors, sensitivity and specificity, diagnostic tests, prevalence and incidence, relative risk and odds ratios, evidence-based medicine, and levels of evidence. He also provides a simple algorithm for choosing the appropriate statistical test based on the nature of the data and the number of groups being compared. Miller concludes with a discussion on the interpretation of p-values and the significance of statistically significant results.

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Bruce S. Miller, MD, MS

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Author Bruce S. Miller, MD, MS

Date August 11, 2019

Title Sports Medicine Research

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Bruce Miller

statistical concepts

research studies

sample size estimation

evidence-based medicine

levels of evidence

diagnostic tests

p-values