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Lecture 2: Population-level study design Flashcards

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What is Humourism?

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Ill health caused by imbalances in four fundamental characteristics

Humorism was based on the idea that four essential fluids (blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm) in the body controlled a person’s health and personality

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What are the 4 characteristics of Humourism?

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  1. Incorporated roles of temperament.
  2. Seasons
    3.Climate
  3. Alchemic elements
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What treatments were used during Humourism?

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Blood letting
Laxatives
Emetics

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What did Vrchov introduced to western medicine?

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Cellular Pathology
(1840s)

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What did Snow introduce to western medicine?

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Epidemiology
(1850s)

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What did Pasteur introduce to western medicine?

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Microbiology
(1860s)

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What does the practice of Evidence based medicine intergrate?

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1) individual clinical expertise
2) the best available external clinical evidence
3) Patient values & expectations

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How do you formulate an Evidenced based Medicine research Questions?
(5 As cycle)

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  1. Ask: Formulate a research question
  2. Access: Find and retrieve the ‘best evidence’
  3. Appraise: Consider the evidence for its validity & relevance
  4. Apply: Integrate the of results into clinical practice
  5. Assess: Evaluate the effectiveness
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Which type of studies contains filtered infromation?

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Critically-Appraised Individual articles
Critically Appraised Topics (Evidence Syntheses)
Systematic Review

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Which type of studies contains filtered information?

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Critically-Appraised Individual articles
Critically Appraised Topics (Evidence Syntheses)
Systematic Review

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Which type of studies contains unfiltered information?

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Randomised Controlled Trials
Case-Controlled Studies
Cohort Studies

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What type of studies does the TRIP data base Seach for simultaneously?

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Background Information/Expert Opinion

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What are the 4 types of evidence?

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  1. Description
  2. Prediction
  3. Casual Inference
  4. Qualitative
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What is description evidence?

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What happened?
Who was affected?
People with X had Y

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What is Prediction evidence?

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What will happen?
Who will be affected?
People with X are more likely to have Y?

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What is Casual Inference evidence?

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What will happen if…?
Why were they affected?
If we changed X, how would it change Y?

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What is Qualitative evidence?

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What matters…?
Why does it matter?
How can we effectively change X…?
Should we change X?

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Is studying individual people useful with probabilistic events?

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NO.
People are very different
Even the same people can respond very differently at different times

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What group are we most interested in in most instances?

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What do we use samples of the populations?

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The population is often impossible or impractical to study

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What is clinical research?

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Focused on understanding and helping individuals

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What is population health Research?

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Focused on understanding and helping populations

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What is a census?

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Total population.

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What is a population-based study?

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a total population of a country or area

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What is a case report?
Study of a singular person.
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What happens during a Case report?
Describing what happened Describing her symptoms etc
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What is a Case series?
a report written on a sample of cases with the same disease allowing for predications of prognosis, survival rate, symptoms and other health-related outcomes to be predicted
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What do Case series look at?
Allows for description of natural history & prediction of prognosis: Frequency and range of symptoms Typical duration Typical survival Range of prognoses Predictors of prognosis
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What are Register- based Studies?
Special type of case-series a type of case series that uses regional disease registers to count and collect information on people based on a particular disease These are commonly population-based, so you can estimate the disease occurrence per population
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What are disease registers?
count and collect information on people diagnosed with a particular disease
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What is a Cross-sectional study?
a study of a group of people at a single point in time
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What does a cross- sectional study involve?
Directly surveying or measuring a group of people Gathering routinely-collected data
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What is meant by 'stratified'?
Descriptive studies usually also report their results broken down (‘stratified’) into subgroups
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What are Common characteristics for stratification?
Age Sex Socio-economic position Self-reported ethnic group Marital status Occupation
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What are Cohort Studies?
Cohort studies examine groups of people over time
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What is Hypothesis generation?
Descriptive studies often present multiple stratified results, to generate hypotheses
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What are common variables Hypothesis generation?
Individual-level characteristics Age, sex, socio-economic position, ethnic group, marital status, occupation Area-level characteristics Countries, regions, latitude, urban vs rural areas, more vs less deprived areas, Temporal characteristics Secular trends (i.e. over time) Dynamic or seasonal trends (e.g. month, season, day of week)
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What are case control studies?
Case-control studies examine groups of people over time retrospectively
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What are advantages of Case-control studies?
Good to study rare diseases Can investigate multiple exposures at a time Cheaper and less time consuming than a long-term cohort study
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What are disadvantages of Case control studies?
Recall bias Need for suitable control group Can establish correlation but NOT causation
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What is an ecological study?
A study that examines variations between geographical areas is called an ecological study
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What are 'units of analysis' in ecological studies?
Not individual people, but an area.
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What is the relationship between ecological studies and hypotheses?
Ecological studies are weak for testing hypotheses, but can be useful for generating hypothesis

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