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2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

MLS 521 - Issues in Clinical Laboratory Science I: Health Care Administration

Credits 1
Laboratory / 1 hours per week
Designed to teach the student to use the best evidence to make diagnoses, facilitate patients’ choices and provide patients with appropriate counseling in the area of the various biomedical technologies. Evidence-based medicine is used in the medical decision-making techniques of probability, analysis, treatment and testing thresholds, and cost-effectiveness to frame the medical problem. In the second segment, the student will learn to review the current medical literature to retrieve and evaluate relevant information. In the final segment the student will learn to assess the validity of medical information.
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