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Epidemiology Flashcards

1
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What type of randomization has multiple randomizations into 2 or more groups, which are then subdivided into more groups?

A

Factorial Randomization

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What type of randomization has multiple randomizations, but the subjects must stay in their assigned group; no switching

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Parallel Randomization

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What type of randomization has groups serve as their own controls by switching from one intervention to another during the study?

A

Crossing-over Randomization

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What is single-blind blinding?

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Subjects don’t know,Researchers do know

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What is double-blind blinding?

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No one knows

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What is open-label blinding?

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Everyone knows

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What is placebo therapy (dummy therapy)?

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Fake treatment made to look like real treatment

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What is double-dummy therapy?

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Where there is more than 1 placebo used

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What is the placebo effect?

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Improvement in condition by power of suggestion

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What is the hawthorne effect?

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Patients are eager to please the researchers

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What is a run-in/lead-in phase?

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All patients given placebo to establish baseline/standardization

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What type of randomization has 1 randomization into 2 or more groups and is used to test a single hypothesis?

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Simple Randomization

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What type of study is observational, analytical, and allows researchers to be passive observers of natural events occurring in naturally exposed & un-exposed groups?

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Cohort study

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What is a cohort?

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A group with something in common

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What is known in a cohort study? (disease or exposure)

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Exposure (rows of 2x2 table)

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What is the descriptive purpose of a cohort study?

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Measures of frequency, incidences, & incidence rates

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What is the analytic purpose of a cohort study?

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Measures of association, risk ratios, & predictive risk-factors

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What type of cohort study is it when the outcome is not known?

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Prospective

19
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What type of cohort study is it when the exposure and outcome are both known?

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Retrospective

20
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What type of cohort study uses retrospective design to asses past differences but data is collected on additional outcomes?

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Ambidirectional

21
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In a cohort study, what can be represented that relates the study with time?

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Temporality

22
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What is used to assess the adequacy of blinding in an interventional study?

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Post hoc

23
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T/F: All simple and factorial studies are parallel studies.

A

True

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