Estimating Risk

Question 1

Absolute Risk

Answer 1

The probability that a disease free individual will develop a given disease over a specified time interval

Question 2

Attributable Risk

Answer 2

The amount or proportion of the health outcome (disease incidence or disease risk) that can be attributed to a specific exposure

Question 3

Relative Risk

Answer 3

the ratio of the risk for a disease in an incidence of exposed vs incidence of unexposed group over a defined time interval

Question 4

Relative risk can only be calculated using ____

Answer 4

incidence

Question 5

Odds Ratio

Answer 5

a measure of association between an exposure and an outcome

Question 6

Odds ratio is used when ____ cannot be measured

Answer 6

incidence

Question 7

T/F? Odds ratio tends to overestimate the magnitude or relative risk.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Odds ratio will approximate relative risk when the disease being studied is _____

Answer 8

rare

Question 9

Which of the following implies a causal relationship between exposure and disease?

a) odds ratio
b) relative risk
c) attributable risk
d) risk difference

Answer 9

C

Question 10

Odds ratio interpretations include which words?

Answer 10

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