Therapy

Question 1

what is therapy

Answer 1

interventions that are intended to have a positive influenc on hthe natrual history of disease

Question 2

primary prevention

Answer 2

removing risk factors PIOR to the onset disease– can be given to everyone (ex/ don’t start smoking in the first place)

Question 3

smoking cessation prior to getting lung disease is an example of ___ prevention

Answer 3

primary

Question 4

folic acid supplemention to avoid neurla tube defects is an example of ____ prevention

Answer 4

primary

Question 5

what is secondary prevention

Answer 5

detecting the disease while it is asymptomatic and when intervntion can reduce disease progression (ex/ pap smear)

Question 6

prevention that involves reducing the impact of disase is known as ____ prevention

Answer 6

tertiary

Question 7

example of tertiary prevention

Answer 7

ex. rehab after a stroke– slows the natural history of the disease which already happened

Question 8

5 common measures of treatment and prevention effect

Answer 8

1. absolute risk reduciton
2. relative risk
3. relative risk reduction
4. odd ratio
5. numbers needed to treat

Question 9

efficacy vs effectivenetss

Answer 9

efficacy is a measure of success of a treatment when done in a clinical seetting/ideal setting

effectiveness is a measure of success of a treatment in everyday practice where subjecst are not excluded based on individual differences, where there is less monitoring by healthcare workes and where patients are generally less adherent than in the hospital seting.

Question 10

publication bias

Answer 10

the fact that we don’t usually publish negative outcomes! we are more likely to publish positive outcomes so we are hiding the failed outcoems from our initialy search