Medical,Public Health And Pharmaceutical Research

Matrix

is the branch of Matrix
TRC specialized in the fields of …

Biostatistics and epidemiology

Clinical pharmacology and pharmacy

Pharmacoepidemiology

Public health

Our research services cover both types of studies:

Observational (cross-sectional, case
control or cohortal)

Interventional (phases 1, 2 or 3, public
health interventions)

Matrix

research and consulting handles studies at all their phases:

Research conception

Study design

Data collection

Data analysis

Medical writing

Publication in scientific peer journals.

Training & workshop programs

Introduction to Biostatistics

Biostatistics 1: Meta analysis

Biostatistics 2: Decision analysis

Introduction to Epidemiology

Advanced Epidemiology

Measuring subjectivity in Epidemiology

Scientific reading of medical and clinical papers

Health Economics

Seminar main objectives

Understanding the usefulness of biostatistics in clinical professions
Interpreting the findings and outcomes of scientific experiments
Exploring the essential elements of statistics and biostatistics
Being able to apply biostatistics in health professions
Presenting a rationale for non-parametrical tests

Program general content

Box plots, confidence intervals, normality tests
Students, Khi-square and Fisher tests
Kruskal Wallis and Mann Whitney tests
Linear Regression and Kaplan Meyer curve
Risk measurement
Multivariate analysis

Durations and fees

Lebanon and Syria: 3 Days 3000$ or 15 Hours 3600$
Other M.E.N.A regions: 30% additional fees

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods
for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.
W.A.Wallis

Seminar main objectives

Pinpointing the limitations of single studies in demonstrating evidence
Highlighting the role of meta-analysis in modern medicine
Exploring the fundamental principles of different study types
Becoming able to evaluate meta-analysis literature
Validating meta-analysis output

Program general content

Effect, effect measurement and undesirable effect
Weight of meta-analysis proof, statistical significance, direct and indirect comparisons
Publication bias: causes and consequences
Selecting the trials: quality evaluation
Data extraction
Statistical techniques: general principle, binary judgment criteria, continuous criteria

Durations and fees

Lebanon and Syria: 3 Days 3750$ or 15 Hours 4500$
Other M.E.N.A regions: 30% additional fees

A lottery is a tax on people who
don't understand statistics!!
Alvaro Montenegro

Seminar main objectives

Revealing the importance of decision analysis in medicine
Examining and comparing aspects of decision analysis
Exploring decision analysis principles in health professions
Comparing best and worst case scenarios
Presenting a critical reading of professional decision analysis outputs

Program general content

Uncertainty in decision analysis
Simple sensitivity analysis: one-way,multiple-way decision analysis
Scenario analysis
Probabilistic sensivity analysis: Monte-Carlo analysis
Calculation of sensivity analysis

Durations and fees

Lebanon and Syria: 2 Days 3000$ or 10 Hours 3600$
Other M.E.N.A regions: 30% additional fees

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
can never go back to its old dimensions .
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Seminar main objectives

Differentiating between biostatistics and epidemiology
Exploring main indicators of the epidemiology science
Understanding the relation between epidemiology, medicine, and public health
Understanding and running epidemiological studies
Exploring trial designs in epidemiology
Applying the diagnosis testing evaluation

Program general content

Introduction to confidence intervals and P-value
Health & Disease Measures: prevalence, incidence, mortality …
Observational and interventional studies
Risk measurements : relative risk and odds ratio, Random and systematic errors
Internal and external causality criteria: information, selection, confounding
Validity, reliability, sensitivity and specificity of measurements

Durations and fees

Lebanon and Syria: 3 Days 3000$ or 15 Hours 3600$
Other M.E.N.A regions: 30% additional fees

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using
the same figures to draw different conclusions .
Evan Ezar

Seminar main objectives

Learning how to deal with epidemiological biases
Exploring the multivariate analysis in epidemiology
Designing a professionally advanced epidemiological research
Understanding the effect of systematic errors on research results
Conducting advanced research in epidemiology

Program general content

Handling systematic errors: before and after data collection
Principles of multivariate analyses
Multiple regression
Logistic regression
Kaplan Mayer survival analysis
Cox model

Durations and fees

Lebanon and Syria: 3 Days 3750$ or 15 Hours 4500$
Other M.E.N.A regions: 30% additional fees

It is easy to lie with statistics, but
it is easier to lie without them .
Frederick Mosteller

Seminar main objectives

Depicting health as varying between science precision and human flaws
Presenting duality of objectivity and subjectivity in health measurements
Introducing taxonomy in psychometrics
Mastering the subtlety of subjectivity measures
Defining and evaluating a subjective instrument

Program general content

Objectivity of risk and outcome measures, Taxonomy of psychometric instruments
Psychometric properties:
Reliability: consistency, inter and intra-rater variability
Validity: criterion, content and construct validity
Responsiveness: sensitivity to changes
Interpretability: qualitative and quantitative interpretation

Durations and fees

Lebanon and Syria: 3 Days 4500$ or 15 Hours 5400$
Other M.E.N.A regions: 30% additional fees

Then there was the man who drowned crossing a
stream with an average depth of six inches.
W.I.E Gates

Seminar main objectives

Interpreting the findings and outcomes of scientific articles
Exploring all statistical tests used for the article
Understanding the meaning of the P-value
Translating health problems into statistical models
Reading and commenting on health reviews
Developing a clear and personal opinion on any analysis of a health article

Program general content

Type of studies in health sciences
Statistical introduction and clinical trial designs
Risk measurement and causality
Quality of Life measurement
Health economics introduction
Diagnosis testing evaluation

Durations and fees

Lebanon and Syria: 3 Days 3000$ or 15 Hours 3600$
Other M.E.N.A regions: 30% additional fees

Each problem that I solved became a rule which
served afterwards to solve other problems.
René Descartes

Seminar main objectives

Understanding health economics in a sensitive health care environment
Surveying least expensive versus most cost effective intervention
Exploring basic principles of health economics and pharmaco-economy
Taking adequate decisions in health care
Analyzing future projections in health costs
Recognizing burden of disease in global and regional perspectives

Program general content

Discounting costs
Perspectives of health economics
Health economical study designs
cost-minimization analysis,cost-benefit analysis
cost effectiveness, cost-utility analysis
sensitivity analysis

Durations and fees

Lebanon and Syria: 2 Days 2500$ or 10 Hours 3000$
Other M.E.N.A regions: 30% additional fees

Then there is the man who drowned crossing
a stream with an average depth of six inches .
W.I.E Gates