Ethics/Biostats/Miscellaneous Flashcards
ethics committee
- lost capacity
- unclear or missing advance directives
- medical futility issues
futility
dx tests or tx that MAY HAVE NO BENEDIT
court order
- lost capacity or no proxy
- family disagreement
- caregivers want to withdraw and ethics committee cannot reach a conclusion
psychiatric evulation
if unclear about capacity
brain death– 2 NO’S
NO obligation for futile care
NO need to get consent to stop treatment (mechanical ventilation etc.)
NEVER…
- report domestic violence without consent
- physician assisted suicide
- euthanasia
- pharma endorsement
- executions/ torture
- CONSENT FOR ORGAN DONATION
who gives consent for organ donation
organ donor network
organ donation ….
FAMILY CAN REFUSE it even if the patient has a card
payment for organ donation
NOPE
payment for egg and sperm
YES
can you report elder abuse without consent
YES
can you report domestic violence without consent
NOPE
factoral design
randomization to different interventions with 2 or more variables
example: 3 different anti-hypertensives AND bp to 1-2 mean
RARE disease assumption
OR=RR approx.
if outcome is uncommon in population with case control
generalizability=
EXTERNAL VALIDITY
post- hoc analysis
doing statistical tests on patterns seen after data is taken
loss to follow up leads to….
attrition bias
attrition bias leads to…
selection bias
