Basic Science Flashcards
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Case series
retrospective analysis of a group of patients
no comparison group
Cross sectional study
single time frame sampling of a population
usually a survey
Case-control study
Retrospective comparison of a group of patients with similar conditions
What type of study allows for calculation of an odds ratio?
case-control
Cohort study
Prospective comparison of a group of patients with similar condition
What type of study allows for calculation of relative risk?
cohort
What type of study allows for calculation of incidence?
cohort (bc it is the only study that gathers data prospectively).
Phase 1 FDA
initial drug safety
dose finding
Phase 2 FDA
determine if a drug works
compare to other intervention
Phase 3 FDA
confirm efficacy with large trial
100s of subjects
Phase 4 FDA
long term safety (post-marketing)
What FDA Phase is most common for failure of a device/drug?
Phase 2
Level of Evidence based on study type
1: RCT or meta-analysis
2: cohort
3: case-control
4: case series, cross-sectional
5: expert opinion
Reasons for downgrade of a study (4)
- heterogenous results
- < 80% follow-up
- no blinding
- concerns about randomization
A funnel plot examines…
bias in the results of a meta-analysis.
Relative risk =
risk in exposed/risk in unexposed
measures the incidence
Odds ratio =
probability an event WILL occur/probability an event will NOT occur
What study measures prevalence?
cross-sectional
Channeling bias
subjects unequally given treatment based on their features
ex patients older than 40 having a higher rate of receiving allograft for ACL recon
citation bias
more likely to believe a study in a top journal
publication bias
positive results are more likely to be published
Categorical data
nominal or ordinal
Nominal data
can be labeled into exclusive categories within a variable that cannot be put into a specific order
(ex. blood type, eye color, gender)
Ordinal data
categories that can be ordered
ex. satisfaction level, pain level, SES status, educational status