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Epidemiology:

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The study of distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems

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Descriptive Studies:

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Describe the ocurrence and distribution of one or more variables in a population, group, or sample
Ex: Rabies by species

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Analytical Studies:

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Measure the relationship or association between two variables, usually a risk factor (or exposure) and an outcome
Ex: Rabies positivity rate in cats/dogs

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Questions asked by descriptive studies:

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Who gets sick and who doesn’t?
Where?
When?
How are cases connected?
How big is the problem?

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Questions asked by analytical studies:

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Why did this occur?
What can we do?

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Determinants:

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Host
Agent
Environments

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Types of population data:

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Measurement (quantitative)
Count (Categorical/Qualitative)

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Examples of measurement data:

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Weight, Hematocrit, BUN, Age, Survival Time, Titer, etc

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Count data examples:

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Breed, Sex, +/-, Old/Young, Healthy/Sick/Dead

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Incidence answers what question?

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What is the rate of occurrence of new cases?

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Prevalence answers which question?

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What proportion of animals are sick at once

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Prevalence Calculation:

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All Current Cases/Population at Risk

At a point in time

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Incidence calculation :

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NEW cases/Population at Risk

During a specific time interval

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Primary Prevention:

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An action that PREVENTS disease in healthy animals

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Secondary prevention:

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Identifying animals with disease to prevent symptoms

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Tertiary Prevention:

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Prevention of complications in animals who have the disease

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P-Value:

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Probability that a difference of this size or large would be observed it there really was no difference between groups (probability of this happening randomly)

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Significant P-Values:

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<0.05

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What answers the question “could the difference we found between the means be just due to chance variation?”

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P-value

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What answers the question “how certain are we of the size of the difference between the means?”

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Confidence Interval

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What answers the question “what is the rate of occurrence of new cases?”

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Incidence

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Case Fatality Calculation

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Death among cases/total cases

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What answers the question “What proportion of animals are sick at once?”

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Prevalence

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What answers “what proportion of cases die?”

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Case Fatality Rate

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Risk Ratio/Relative Risk:
Incidence w/ risk factor/incidence w/o risk factor
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Risk Difference/Attributable Risk:
Incidence w/ risk factor - incidence w/o risk factor
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Attributable Fraction:
Risk Difference/Incidence in HIGH risk group
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Prevalence Ratio:
Prevalence w/ risk factor/ Prevalence w/o risk factor
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Prevalence Difference:
Prevalence w/ risk factor - Prevalence w/o risk factor
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Odds Ratio:
Odds of disease w/ risk factor/ Odds w/o risk factor
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What answers the question "how big is the difference between the individuals with and without a particular risk factor?" for QUANTITATIVE studies?
Differences in means
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What answers the question "how big is the difference between the individuals with and without a particular risk factor?" for QUALITATIVE studies?
Relative Risk, Prevalence Ratio, Odds Ratio, Risk Difference, Prevalence Difference, Att Fraction in the Exposed
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Three general categories of studies:
Descriptive, Observational, Experimental
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Two types of analytical studies:
Observational and Experimental
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In a cohort study, you know the __________ and you are working to observe the ___________.
Exposure; Outcome
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In a case-control study, you know the __________ and you are working to observe the ___________.
outcome; exposure
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Three types of observational studies:
Cross-sectional Case-control Cohort
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Cross-sectional studies identifies ______________, not _____________.
Association; Causation
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Study that analyzes data across a population at a single point of time.
Cross-sectional
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Characteristic of sampling for cross-sectional studies:
representative of population, not related to outcome/exposure
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Disease measures in cross-sectional studies:
Prevalence ratio & difference Attributable fraction of the exposed Prevalence Odds Ratio
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Limitations of cross-sectional studies:
-Least useful for establishing causal relationships -Prevalence reflects incidence & duration (can underestimate risk) -Impractical for rare diseases -Poor sampling=> unusable results
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What type of study looks at outcomes (cases) and works backwards to find exposures?
Case-control
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Characteristic of sampling for case-control studies:
Based on outcome of interest (cases & controls)
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What cannot be calculated for case-control studies?
Incidence, Prevalence, Population Risk, Attributable Risk
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What calculation can you assess with case-control studies:
Odds ratio
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Limitations for case-control studies:
-Problems w/ temporal sequence -Values we cant calculate -Can't assess rare exposures -Appropriate control group is hard to pick -High potential for bias
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Best study design for rare diseases:
Case-Control
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Prospective cohort study timing:
Selects cohort at start of study and follows
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Retrospective cohort study timing:
Comparing incidence of disease in exposed v unexposed that has already occurred
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What is the only thing that should differ between groups in clinical trials?
Treatment
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Types of allocation for clinical trials:
Random or Non-Random
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Options for random allocation:
Completely random Random By Pairs Within Blocks
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Options for non-random bias:
Systematic Historical non-random allocation Clinician's discretion
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Specificity:
True negatives/(true negatives + false positives)
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Sensitivity:
True Positives/(True Positives + False Negatives)
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Positive Predictive Value:
True Positives/(True Positives+False Positives)
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Negative Predictive Value:
True Negatives/(True Positives + False Positives)
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Low Prevalence ____________ NPV and _____________ PPV
Increases; Decreases
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High Prevalence ____________ NPV and _____________ PPV
decreases; increases
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When is testing in parallel helpful:
Looking for two different markers (Ie testing for antigen in early dz and antibody in late dz)
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Testing in series increases _________ and decreases ____________.
Specificity; Sensitivity
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Parallel Testing increases ____________ and decreases _____________
Sensitivity; Specificity
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EID:
Emerging infectious disease One that has appeared in a population for the first time or that may have existed previously but is rapidly increasing in incidence or geographic range
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Three questions you should ask in an epidemiologic investigation?
Where did the disease come from? What management factors allowed it to spread? Where did it go from here?
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Which cases should be reported?
All diagnosed/suspected cases of diseases with an APHIS control or eradication program All diagnosed/suspected cases of FADs
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General Management of a disease outbreak:
Get diagnosis Determine and control the source stop transmission Eliminate the disease
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Internal validity excludes the effects of:
Bias Confounding Random Error
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Internal validity:
Does the results represent the truth in the population we are studying
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External validity:
Can the findings be generalized to other contexts
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The relationship between internal & external validity:
If the study lacks internal validity, then external validity is irrelevant
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Random error vs. Systematic error:
RE is error due to chance SE error due to recognizable source Both can exist at the same time
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Effect of bias:
Leads to the appearance of an association when there is none, or obscures an association that really exists
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Selection Bias:
Affects WHO is in the 2x2 table
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Information Bias:
Where in the 2x2 are people put
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Bias towards the null:
observed value is closer to 1 (or 0 in the case of difference measurements) than is the true value
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Bias away from the null:
observed value is farther from 1 (or 0 in the case of difference measurements) than is the true value
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If the truth is RR=1.9 and the biased result is RR=1.4, which direction is it biased and is the association over or underestimated?
Bias towards the null True association is underestimated
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If the truth is RR=0.4 and the biased is RR=0.7, which direction is it biased and is the association over or underestimated?
Bias towards the null True association is underestimated
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If the truth is RR=2.0 and the biased is RR=2.6, which direction is it biased and is the association over or underestimated?
Bias towards the null True association is underestimated
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If the truth is RR=0.5 and the biased is RR=0.3, which direction is it biased and is the association over or underestimated?
Bias towards the null True association is underestimated
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Selection bias is most likely in what type of study?
Case-control
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How does selection bias occur in case control studies? (2)
Control Selection Differential Participation
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Prevention of Control Selection:
Use identical selection criteria for cases and controls
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Prevention of differential participation:
obtain high participation rates for all groups
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How does selection bias occur in cohort studies? (2)
Differential Participation Differential Loss to Follow-up
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How to prevent selection bias in cohort studies?
Obtain (dif. participation) and maintain (dif. loss) high participation rates in all groups
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Two components of misclassification bias:
How accurately can you measure exposures? How accurately can you measure disease?
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Examples of non-differential misclassification bias:
Recall bias Interviewer Bias
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What is the most common type of bias?
Measurement/Misclassification Error
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Effects of non-differential measurement error:
Bias towards the null
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Effects of differential measurement error:
Bias in either direction
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Difference between Differential and non-differential misclassification:
Non-differential (random) has roughly equal errors between groups (masks any true difference) Differential (non-random) has better information in one group which causes over or under estimation of association
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