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Epi Flashcards

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Reproductive number

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R0=Bcd

probability of transmission
Avg number of contacts per unit time
Avg duration of infectiousness

Rt=bcd*proportion susceptible

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Infectious disease epidemiologic triad

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Agent, environment, host

Characteristics:
virulence, pathogenicity, infectivity
Weather, geography, crowding, food
Age, sex, nutrition

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Epidemic curve

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Distribution of disease by time of onset

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incubation period

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Time of infection to time of onset of symptoms

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Latency period

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Time of infection to time of infectiousness

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Herd immunity

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Resistance of a group to infection

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Type I error

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Finding an association when there is none ALPHA

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Type II error

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Finding no association when there is BETA

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Power

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1 - Beta, Correctly finding an association when there is an association, usually 80%

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Error of concern when confidence level is close to null value

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Random error or lack of precision

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What does wide or narrow CI tell you?

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Sample size

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95% Confidence Interval

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When a study has been repeated 100 times, 95% of the time, the CI would contain the real population measure of interest

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Epidemiology

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The study of the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in the human population and the application of the study to control health problems

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Types of variables

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Categorical/nominal, ordinal, continuous

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Decreasing prevalence means…

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More people are cured

More people died

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Morbidity vs Mortality monitoring

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  • early id of problem
  • but more events to track, spectrum of disease, difficult to ID and count, Less complete
  • Fewer events to track, ID impt health problems, very complete
  • but Far downstream in the disease process, tip of iceberg, cause of disease misclassification
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Case Fatality Rate

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Number of people who die from disease within the people who have the disease, expression as per 100,000 population

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Annual Mortality Rate

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number of deaths in the year over population at mid year, expressed as percentage

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Case Reports and Case series: impt and limitations

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Importance: Early detection of unusual occurrence, preliminary source of information for potential
Limitations: No comparison group, Small sample size, no exposure collected

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Observational vs Experimental Studies

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  • Exposure is assigned in experimental, assignment is randomized, maximize control, expensive and maybe unethical
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Descriptive vs analytic studies

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Descriptive: burden and patterns, no direct inference to causality, first impt clues about causes
Analytic: hypothesis stated and tested, associations betwee E and D to understand cause

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Name some descriptive studies

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cross sectional, case series, case report

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Cross-sectional studies

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snapshot, planning, but no temporal order, NHANES

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Purpose of surveillance

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est magnitude of problem, geographic distribution, detect epidemics, evaluate control measures, monitor infectious agents, detect changes in health practice, facilitate planning

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Pearson’s correlation

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parametric (outcome is continuous and normally distributed)

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Spearman r

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non-parametric,discrete, ordered

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Instrumental Variable, mendelian randomization studies

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predictors of exposure like genes

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Attack rate

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sick / # exposure to agent

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3 Biases

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Selection Bias, Information bias, confounder

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How to adjust for measurement error?

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blinding, triangulate, validated measures

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How to adjust for confounder?

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randomization, instrumental variable, matching, restriction at design stage
weighted average, propensity score, multivariate analysis at analysis stage

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Selection bias

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selecting participants not independent of exposure OR loss to f/u at different rates

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Confounding definition

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Unequal distribution of another cause of disease between exposed and unexposed

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Koch’s POstulates

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microorganism must be found in all suffering
must be isolated and grown in pure culture
should cause disease when introduce to healthy organism
reisolated from the inoculated, and ID as being identical to the original agent

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Hill and Doll

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Cigarette smoking

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Hill’s causal viewpoints

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  • strength of assc
  • consistency
  • specificity
  • time sequence
  • biological gradient
  • plausibility
  • coherence
  • experimental
  • analogy
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dose response, biological gradient

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dose response, threshold effect, ceiling effect

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Association and causation

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assoc - being able to predict one based on the other

causation - without one, the disease may not happen or will happen at a later time

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