Behavioral Science Flashcards

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Study measuring disease prevalence and risk factor association in a snapshot of time.

Controls are patients without the risk factor.

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CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Prevalence odds ratio.

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Study comparing prior exposure or risk factors for an outcome of interest.

Controls are patients who do not have the outcome regardless of prior exposure status.

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CASE-CONTROL STUDY

Exposure odds ratio.

Susceptible to recall bias (always retrospective)

Control founding with matching

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Study determining if exposure affects the likelihood of disease - can be prospective or historical.

Controls are patients without the risk factor.

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COHORT STUDY

Relative risk.

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Assessment of safety, toxicity, kinetics, and dynamics of a new drug.

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PHASE I

Healthy volunteers.

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Assessment of efficacy, dosing, and adverse effects of a new drug.

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PHASE II

Patients with disease of interest.

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Assessment of new drug vs standard of care.

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PHASE III

Large randomized controlled trial.

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Assessment of rare or long-term adverse effects.

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PHASE IV

Postmarketing surveillance.

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Proportion of people with disease who test positive.

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SENSITIVITY

High sensitivity useful for ruling out disease (screening) - low false-negative rate.

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Proportion of all people without disease who test negative.

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SPECIFICITY

High specificity useful for ruling in disease (confirmatory) - low false-positive rate.

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Proportion of positive test results that are true positives.

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POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE

Increases with increasing pretest probability (prevalence) - high pretest probability means higher PPV

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Proportion of negative test results that are true negatives.

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NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE

Decreases with increasing pretest probability (prevalence) - high pretest probability means lower NPV

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Odds of exposure of people with the disease, compared with odds of exposure of people without the disease.

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ODDS RATIO

If rows are exposed/unexposed and columns are disease/no disease then OR = ad/bc

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13
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Relative risk

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RELATIVE RISK

Treatment Rate/Control Rate

If prevalence is low, OR = RR (rare disease assumption)

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14
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Absolute risk increase (Attributable Risk)

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Treatment Rate - Control Rate

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Relative Risk Reduction (RRR) - The proportion of risk reduction attributable to the intervention

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RELATIVE RISK REDUCTION

RRR = 1 - RR = ARR/Control Rate

Note: ARP = (RR - 1)/RR

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16
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Absolute risk reduction (ARR)

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Control Rate - Treatment Rate

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17
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Number needed to treat.

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1/ARR

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18
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Number needed to harm.

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1/ARI

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19
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The absence of random variation in a test.

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PRECISION

A measure of reliability/reproducibility

20
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The absence of systematic error or bias in a test.

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ACCURACY

A measure of validity

21
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Null hypothesis incorrectly rejected in favor of alternative hypothesis.

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TYPE I ERROR (ALPHA)

22
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Null hypothesis is not rejected when it is in fact false.

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TYPE II ERROR (BETA)

Statistical power = 1 - Beta

23
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Motor milestones.

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1 mo: Lifts head
6 mo: Rolls and sits, passes toy hand to hand
8 mo: Crawls
10 mo: Stands, pincer grasp
12 mo: Walks, points
18 mo: Climbs stairs
20 mo: Feeds self
24 mo: Kicks ball
3 yr: Tricycle
4 yr: Copies line or circle, hops
5 yr: Grooms self
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Social milestones.

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2 mo: Social smile
6 mo: Stranger anxiety
9 mo: Separation anxiety
24 mo: Away from mother
24-36 mo: Parallel play
36 mo: Gender identity
3 yr: Time away from mother
4 yr: Cooperative play
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Verbal/Cognitive milestones.

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4 mo: Orients to voice
9 mo: Orients to name, object permanence
10 mo: Mama and dada
2 yr: 200 words, 2 word sentences
3 yr: 1000 words, complete sentences
4 yr: Tells stories
26
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Sleep chances in the elderly.

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Decreased REM sleep and slow-wave sleep
Increased sleep onset latency
Increased early awakenings

27
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Sensorineural hearing loss of higher frequencies (cochlear base).

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PRESBYCUSIS

28
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Basic information that can be shared to presumed family when patient cannot give consent.

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Patient is stable.

29
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Procedure in a case of suspected child abuse.

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Interview child alone then contact CPS immediately if any suspicion.

30
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Selection bias created by selecting hospitalized patients as the control group.

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Berkson’s bias

31
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Difference between confounding variables and effect modification.

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After stratification there will be a significant difference in risk in effect modification, but not with a confounding variable.

32
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Equation for SE - Used when describing the confidence interval for a sample rather than the normal distribution of a population.

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SE = SD/sqrt(n)

33
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Observer bias leading to the tendency of subjects to change their behavior as a result of their awareness that they are being studied.

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Hawthorne effect

34
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Effect describing the fact that a researcher’s belief in the efficacy of treatment can potentially affect the outcome.

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Pygmalion effect

35
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Selection bias in which subjects lost to follow up differ in their risk of developing the outcome compared to the remaining subjects.

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Attrition bias

36
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Bias occurring when either exposure or outcome is not identified correctly.

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Misclassification bias

If random (nondifferential) - will affect all groups to the same extent.

37
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Study where the unit of analysis is populations rather than individuals.

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Ecological study

Attempting to connect these results to individuals is known as ecological fallacy

38
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Study that starts out as cohort studies and then recruits patients who develop an outcome of interest into a case-control study.

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Nested case-control design

39
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Bias referring to the fact that a risk factor itself may lead to extensive diagnostic investigation and increase the probability that a disease is detected.

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Detection bias

40
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Requirement for hospice care.

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Life expectancy of < 6 months.

41
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Response to suspected intimate partner violence.

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Investigate emergency safety plans and give referrals - do not pressure the patient to disclose to act

42
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Probably that one event will turn out differently (independent events)

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1 - P(all will turn out the same)

43
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Standard deviations

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1 - 68%
2 - 95%
3 - 99.7%

Note - Includes both tails so divide in half for one tail

44
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Positive likelihood ratio

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Sensitivity/(1-Specificity)

Note - Negative LR is (1 - Sensitivity)/Specificity

45
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Incidence

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New cases/Total at risk

Note - Total at risk is total population minus those who already have the disease

46
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Covered by Medicare (Federal)

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> 65 with work history
Disabilities
ESRD
ALS

Note - Parts A (hospitalization), B (outpatient, devices), C (dental/vision), D (prescription)

47
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Covered by Medicaid (State)

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Low-income families
Pregnant women
Homeless
Undocumented immigrants