Ethics And Stats Flashcards

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What are the 4 tenets of medical ethics

A

Autonomy (requires that pt has mental capacity to evaluate options)

Non-maleficence (avoid deliberate/unintentional harm)

Beneficence (it is our duty to act in the best interest of the pt)

Justice (fairness to individuals)

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Pediatric trauma. Needs transfusion but parents jehovah’s witness. What is the right thing to do?

Based on which tenet?

A

Tell family you are obligated to transfuse even against their will.

Not based on autonomy.
Based on beneficence

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Which tenet is the informed consent based on?

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Autonomy

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What is the mode of the following series:

4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 11

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  1. Mode is the number that appears most often
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Which depends on the sample size?

a) standard deviation
b) variance
c) standard error

A

Standard error

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What’s the difference between continuous, ordinal, and nominal

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Continuous: real numbers, not integers

Ordinal: categories mean something. Young/middle aged/old or pain scale

Nominal: categories that don’t have order significance

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What study design starts with the outcome and examine the exposure?

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Case control study

Reason to do: if the outcome is rare

Find 10 ppl who have medulloblastoma and ppl who don’t have it then compare

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You use odds ratio in what type of study?

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Case control study. Think: you’re studying an odd disease that not very many ppl have. Odds ratio

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How to calculate specificity/sensitivity

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For sn/sp you start with everyone who has disease

And see how good the test is.

Positive PID (positive in disease) is a sensitive issue

What % will be positive among those who have the disease?

Specificity: negative in health (NIH) NIH is specific

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How to calculate positive/negative predictive value

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You start with the test and ask how good is the test

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Sensitivity/specificity/PPV/NPV

which is affected by the prevalence of the disease?

A

PPV and NPV

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12
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What statistic test do you use for nominal variables?

A

Chi square

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What do you use for ordinal variables?

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Wilcox on rank sum. Mann whitney.

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14
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Odds ratio vs relative risk

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Relative risk is probability 1/probability 2

Odds ratio is p1/(1-p1) divided by p2/(1-p2)

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For kaplan meier curves what is log rank test and cox?

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Log rank compare survival between groups

Cox adjusts for confounders

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What is the most common indication for surgical intervention in older adults >65

A

Biliary tract disease

17
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What type of surgical procedure is at the highest risk of postop delirium?

A

Ortho according to passmachine

Cardiac according to truelearn

18
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Difference between adverse events, sentinel events, and close calls

A

Adverse events: shit happens

Close calls: better to be lucky than good

Sentinel events: should never happen. Wrong site surgery, foreign body, etc

19
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What is the most commong cause of wrong site surgery?

A

Poor communication

20
Q

What % needles under 10mm are seen on x-rays?

<25mm?

A

29%

84% of needles are seen if <25mm

21
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Does sleep deprivation affect the speed or accuracy of a given surgical task?

A

Slows down.

Accuracy is fine

22
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Technical errors are more likely to happen during routine or complex operations?

A

Routine operations in complex pt

23
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What is the most common reason for lawsuits in nursing home?

A

Falls and pressure ulcers

24
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What are formal/informal advance directives?

What is a durable power of attorney?

A

Formal: written document
Informal: not a written document. Verbal statement given to friend or family by the pt regarding medical wishes

Durable power of attorney: it’s a formal advance directive that designates a surrogate decision maker for the oatient

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What happens to systemic vascular resistance with increasing age?
It increases with age
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What happens to oxygen consumption with increasing age?
O2 consumption decreases with age
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What's the order of priority for a incapacitated pt? Siblings, parents, adult children, divorced wife, non-divorced wife
Non-divorced wife > adult children > parent > adult sibling
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What is the relationship between type II error and power?
Power = 1 - beta (type II error)
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Blinding vs randomization Which one is used to minimize treatment bias introduced by the pts and clinicians
Blinding
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Blinding vs randomization Which one is used minimize unrecognized variables that may affect outcomes?
Randomization
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1,000 total pts. 200 with diabetes 800 without SSI: 120 (40 with diabetes, 80 without) What is the odds ratio of SSI occurring in diabetes
Odds of diabetics having SSI / odds of non-diabetics having SSI ``` 40/160 = 0.25 80/720 = 0.111 ``` 0.25/0.111 = 2.25
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How is power of a study related to null hypothesis?
Power = rejecting null hypothesis when in fact null hypothesis is false. Accepting null hypothesis when in fact null hypothesis is false = beta. Type II error
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Chi square vs Mann whitney U. What variables are used for each test?
Chi square: nominal variables | Mann whitney: ordinal variable