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What is validity?

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The best available approximation of the truth or falsity of a given inference, proposition, or conclusion

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What is conclusion validity concerning?

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Relationship between the study and what was reported

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What is internal validity concerning?

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Whether the relationship concluded was causal

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When generalizing observational findings to substantiate a hypothesis, what type of validity is needed?

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Construct validity

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When generalizing observational findings to other persons, places, and times, what type of validity is needed?

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External validity

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Name four types of validity

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  • conclusion
  • internal
  • construct
  • external
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What are two major types of sampling methods?

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  • probability sampling
  • nonprobability sampling
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Probability sampling uses what kind of selection?

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Some form of random selection

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Nonprobability sampling uses what kind of selection?

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Systematic or haphazard, but not random

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groups in sampling

Who is the theoretical population?

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Who is being generalized

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groups in sampling

Who is the study population?

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The population they have access to

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groups in sampling

What is the sampling frame?

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How/when they got patients

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generalizing studies

Continuously assessing how the study group generalizes to the theoretical population is an example of what model?

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Model I: Sampling

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generalizing studies

What model examines the gradients of similarity to the times, places, people, and settings of the study?

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Model II: Proximal Similarity

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How does random error affect an average? How does it affect the variability around the average?

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No effect on average, only increases variability around the average

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measurement of error

The true score model includes which factors?

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Study measurements equal to “true” value plus both random error and systematic error

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How does systematic error affect an average? What is this effect called?

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Changes the average, called bias

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If there is likely another cause for patient improvement beyond the intervention, this is a threat to:

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Internal validity

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Name three measures of central tendency

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  • mean
  • median
  • mode
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Name four descriptive statistics for central tendency

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  • dispersion
  • range
  • variance
  • standard deviation
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Dispersion is higher when…

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scores are more spread out in distribution

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What is range?

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Difference between the largest score in the data and the smallest score

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What is variance of a sample?

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A measure of how data points differ from the mean

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When is coefficient of variation useful?

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Measuring relative dispersion or comparing the spread of two distributions
(i.e., to compare the distribution of two variables with vastly different mean
values)

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Describe a normal distribution's shape
Roughly bell-shaped
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__% of all scores fall within 1 standard deviation of the mean __% within 2 standard deviations __% within 3 standard deviations
68% within 1 95% within 2 99.7% within 3
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Larger standard deviation means...
more scatter about the mean, worse precision
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Smaller standard deviation means...
less scatter about the mean, better precision
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What is interquartile range?
Range in the middle of the data, the difference between the upper and lower quartiles in the data set
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A statistical difference is a function of difference between ___ relative to the ___.
difference between **means** relative to the **variability**
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A small difference between means with large variability could be due to...
chance
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The P in P value stands for...
probability
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Smaller P values indicate...
stronger evidence against the null hypothesis
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What P value is a scientific benchmark for concluding fairly strong evidence against null hypothesis?
<0.05
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A .95 confidence interval means the hypothesis is rejected at P value...
.05
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A .99 confidence interval means the hypothesis is rejected at P value...
.01
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What is statistical power?
The ability of a study to find a significant result (if one really exists)
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The two measures of association used most often are:
* relative risk/ risk ratio * odds ratio
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#measures of association How is risk ratio expressed?
chances of something happening/ chances of all things happening
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#measures of association How is odds ratio expressed?
chances of something happening/ chances of it not happening
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When is risk ratio used?
When comparing outcomes of those exposed and those not exposed
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When is odds ratio used?
In case-control studies or cohort studies
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What is survival analysis?
Analyzes time is takes for an event to occur, such as relapse or death
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What is regression analysis?
Analyzes relationship between variables, such as age and risk
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What is sensitivity?
True positives from those known to have the disease/condition
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What is specificity?
True negatives from those known to not have the disease/condition
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What is positive predictive value?
The proportion of true positives among all positive test results
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What is negative predictive value?
The proportion of true negatives among all negative test results
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What does the receiver operating curve compare?
Sensitivity to specificity
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If there is likely another cause for patient improvement beyond the intervention, this is a threat to...
internal validity
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What is the risk of having low back pain if 10/25 men typically have it in a year?
10/25 = .4
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What are the three parts of EIP?
Research, patient presentation, clinical expertise
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The possibility that a healthcare outcome is due to something other than the healthcare represents what fallacy?
Fallacy of false attribution
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What is used in inferential statistics to detect a significant difference between two samples?
P value
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If the proposed theoretical biological method of action of intervention does not make physiological sense, this is a threat to...
construct validity
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We can increase generalizability through...
varying patient characteristics
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How do you formulate a searchable question?
PICO
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List study types from highest to lowest level of evidence
- meta-analysis - systematic review - randomized control trial - cohort - case-control - case series - case study - animal model
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What is PRISMA used to evaluate?
Meta-analysis quality
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Name four ways to reduce error in your study
1. triangulation 2. review 3. pilot work 4. training
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When too many subjects are lost to follow-up or unequal loss of subjects between two groups happens, which type of bias could be present?
Transfer bias
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A more reliable measurement will have a ___ range of data.
narrow
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If you were to compare the distribution of glucose level with height, which descriptor would be best?
Coefficient of variation
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If the odds ratio for men to women for lifetime obesity is 1.2, what does this mean?
Men are 1.2 times more likely to have obesity
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If the heterogeneity is high for a particular meta-analysis, then...
the combination of data is not substantiated
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Reading the table of contents of a few key journals is an example of...
keeping current
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Randomized controlled trials must include...
an experimental intervention
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If laboratory findings are not likely to be applicable to patients in a clinical setting, there is a threat to...
external validity
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If the outcome measures used for a study are on non-validated scales that may have reliability or reproducibility problems, there is a threat to...
conclusion validity
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When there is no blinding to treatment, it may result in...
performance bias
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If you were to compare the distribution of two variables with vastly different mean values, which descriptor would be best?
Coefficient of variation
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P50 in rank percentile is the same as which other term?
Median
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What is used to evaluate systematic review quality?
PRISMA
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Name two factors that the power of a study is influenced by
Number of patients, magnitude of effect
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When historic controls are used as a comparison group for patients undergoing an intervention, it may result in...
chronology bias
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Randomized clinical control trials are always...
prospective
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The difference between probability and non-probability sampling is...
probability sampling uses random selection
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If the proposed theoretical model of cause and effect is not supported, this is a threat to...
construct validity
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After performing thorough literature search, you must...
appraise the articles
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Conclusion validity asks the question:
Is there a relationship between the proposed cause and effect?

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