Exam 1: intro Flashcards
1
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Anecdotal Evidence
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- one person’s experience
- most common
- not highly reliable
2
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Experimental design
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- experiment group: gets treatment
- control: doesnt get treatment
3
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confounders
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influences in study
4
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intervention
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change in patients life
5
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observation
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watch people and their intake
6
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case study
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- anecdotal evidence
- patient recieves something, record results
- suggestion for a direction of reseach
7
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Epidemiology Study
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- population conducts study on oneself
- look for correlation overtime and outcome: observational
- correlation doesnt prove causation
8
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Intervention
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Experimental design
9
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multifactorial
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multiple factors that lead to having a disease- chronic
10
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Scientific Method
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- systematic exploration
- leads to reliable results
11
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Animal Studies
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-classic experimental design
12
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Clinical Studies
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- interventions
- ethical limitations
13
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randomization
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assign people to experimental and control group by randomization
-even groups with factors not even considered
14
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placebo
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population receives fake treatment
15
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generlizability
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- how safely can a study be related to real life people
- human studies: higher generlizability
