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Week 6 Flashcards

1
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What is a biological study

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Physiological, direct cell observation, test tube

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2
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What is epidemiologic (population health and clinical) studies

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Observational studies
Experimental Studies

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3
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What are the two types of observational studies

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Descriptive studies
Analytic Studies

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4
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What are the two types of experimental studies

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Randomized Controlled Trial
Community Trial

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5
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What is a descriptive study

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Its not a theory study you are just describing case reports and series

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6
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What types of studies can be analytic and descriptive

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Cross-sectional study
Ecologic Study

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7
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What is an analytic study

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You have research and a hypothesis
Clinical Trial
Community Trial
Case control study
cohort study

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8
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What are 5 goals you should have for design decesions

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How should you define your exposures
In which people
How should you define your disease
How can you make your study valid
How can you make your study efficient

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9
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What are the 6 components of a study

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  1. Population
  2. Exposure
    3.Outcome
    4.Potential Confounders
  3. Analysis
  4. Communication of findings
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10
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What is case definition

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Descrption of the event that you are intrested in studying can be a disease defect injury event or state

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11
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What is exposure

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Determinant of intrest upon which an outcome depends can be constitutional environmental or behavioral

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12
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What is anylasis

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examaination of your study data estimation of measure of disease frequency and association

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13
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What is communication of findings

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Tell the appropriate persons or community what you found even if you found no association

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What is the hierachy of evidence

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Systematic Reviews and meta analyses
Randomized controlled double blind stucise
Cohort studies
Case control studi
Case series
Case reports
Ideas, Editorials , Opinions
Animal research
in test tube research

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What is a case report

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A report of health issues in one patient
A disease or disorder or undergoing usally just for one odd person

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16
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What is a case series

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A report that descrribes a group of individuals who have the same health issue a few people

17
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What are some qualties about case report and case series

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No theory, no research question goal is only reporting

18
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What is sign

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An objective indication of disease that can be clinically observed such as a rash cough fever or elevated blood pressure

19
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What is a symptom

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A subjective indication of illness that is experienced by an individual but cannot be directly observed by others

20
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What are the two types of coding systesm

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International classifaction of disease (ICD)
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder(DSM)

21
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What is a cross secetional prevalence study

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A group of people are examined at one point in time

22
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What is prevelance

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the percentage of members of a population who have given health issue at the time of the study

23
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what is prevalence rate ratio in cross sectional studies

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A comparison of a charatersitc in two independent populations

24
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What are some limitations of cross sectional studies

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No time dimension cannot be used to assess causality
Can not show that an exposure caused a disease

25
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What is repeated cross sectional study

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Re sample and re survey same source population at two or more different time point dose not track the same individuals forward in time

26
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What is a correlational study

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Unit of analysis is the group not the indivdual

27
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What is aggregate

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a group of indivuals

28
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What are the variables in correlation studies

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Usually aggregate statistics such as the proportion of a population with a particular charterstic or the average value of the variable in the population

29
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What is ecological fallacy

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the incorect assumption that individuals follow the trends observed in population level data
experince of an individual in a population may vary significantly from the population average

Health science 2801 (10 decks)

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