Epidemology Flashcards
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What study would you use to investigate causes of disease?
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Population based observational stufies
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What is population based risk?
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How individuals infer their personal risk.
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What do population based intervention trails evaluate?
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Drugs and interventions
3
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Why are critical appraisals necessary?
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To decide causality.
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What does deterministic mean?
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Inevitability or aetiology.
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What does stochastic mean?
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Predicts the probability or likelihood of future events.
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How is causality determined?
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Deterministic vs stochastic.
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Why is it important to recognise the need for a perspective beyond that of the individual patient?
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Assess population based risk
Investigate the cause of the disease
Treatment and prevention of the disease
Evaluate drugs and interventions
