EPIDEMIOLOGY

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DEFINITION OF EPIDEMIOLOGY GIVEN BY?

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JOHN M LAST

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Father of modern epidemiology and public health

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John Snow

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Forward looking study is

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cohort

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retrospective study is

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case control

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TROHOC Study aka

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case control

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relative risk

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incidence in exposed/ incidence in non exposed

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attributable risk

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incidence in exposed- I(non exposed) /I(exposed *100

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Population attributable risk

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I(total) - I(non exposed)/ I(total) *100

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Odd’s ratio formular

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internet

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most accurate, easiest and most common measure of strength of association

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relative risk

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drawback of ecological study is

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ecological fallacy

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to remove confounding-

1. most common
2. best
3. 2nd best

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1. matching
2. stratified randomisation
3. randomisation

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Hawthorne bias is an example of which bias?

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subject bias

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Berksonian and Pygmalion bias are examples of ?

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Investigatory selection bias

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most common blinding

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double

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best blinding

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triple

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heart of RCT

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RANDOMISATION

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In rct,randomisation is best applied at

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2nd stage (allocation of groups)

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Order of study designs, best to worst

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meta analyses
rct
retrospective cohort
prospectivecohort
case control
cross section 
ecologial

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disadvantage of meta analyses

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publication bias, apple orange effect

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funnel plot and forest plot seen in ?

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meta analyses

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father of evidence based medicine

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david lawrence sackett

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gold satndard of evidence based medicine

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meta analyses

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spontaneous theory of disease causation given by ?

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aristotle

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germ theory of dis by?

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L pasteur

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multifactorial causation given by

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Patenkofer

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web of causation given by

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McMohan and Pugh

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1st true epidemiologist

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hippocrates

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national institute of epidemiology at?

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chennai