Definitions (1)

Question 1

ADL

Answer 1

Activities of daily living - measurement of the functional status of a person

Question 2

Birth rate

Answer 2

Summary rate based on the number of live births in a population over a given period of time, usually one year

Question 3

Clinical audit

Answer 3

Quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria and the implementation of change

Question 4

Clinical effectiveness

Answer 4

The degree to which the organisation is ensuring that best practice is used

Question 5

Critical appraisal

Answer 5

The process of carefully and systematically examining research to judge its trustworthiness, and its value and relevance in a particular context

Question 6

Incidence

Answer 6

The number of new cases of a disease in a population in a defined period of time

Question 7

Prevalence

Answer 7

The number of individuals with a disease at a given point in time or within a defined interval

Question 8

QUALY

Answer 8

A measure of disease burden, including both the quality and the quantity of life lived

Question 9

What is the QUALY based on

Answer 9

The number of years of life that would be added by the intervention