RT Book, Section A1 Waning, Brenda A1 Montagne, Michael SR Print(0) ID 2642171 T1 Answer Key for Study Questions T2 Pharmacoepidemiology: Principles and Practice YR 2001 FD 2001 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 9780071355070 LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=2642171 RD 2024/04/24 AB 1. The primary difference in the focus of inquiry between clinical medicine and epidemiology involves the emphasis on the individual patient versus the population at large. Clinical medicine focuses on individual patients and may not be able to differentiate variability between patients, whereas epidemiology focuses on large groups of people or populations and what happens to whole groups.