Use person, place, and time to structure an initial epidemiologic description.
The first useful answer is often not "why"; it is "where is the pattern?" Descriptive epidemiology organizes cases by person, place, and time. The point is to become familiar with the data, see its limits, communicate the pattern, and generate hypotheses that can later be tested. Person Person variables include age, sex, role, task, immune status, medication, behaviors, or access to care. In a workplace, "person" often means shift, job family, team, customer segment, or exposure role. Place Place can be residence, worksite, room, production line, clinic, event venue, travel destination, or reporting source. Pick the place that matches the…
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