Clinical epidemiology

Clinical epidemiology, the study of disease prevalence and incidence in a given population, generates evidence based medicine to support clinical decision making. It is what clinicians use to inform patients of the risk and benefits in order to make health care decision together related to disease prevention, causes, frequency, prognosis and treatment. This is significant because clinicians can use epidemiology to foresee and positively influence the negative outcomes that patients are concerned with which include death, disease, discomfort, disability, dissatisfaction. Epidemiology studies aid clinicians in a meaningfully discussion with their patient about their plan of care.