Health Information Flashcards
What are the stages in drug development (after preclinical animal testing etc.)
1- Volunteer studies, check for major side effects
2 - Treatment Studies, effects and dosages investigated
3 - Clinical trials, comparison to standard treatment
4 - monitoring for adverse reactions
What is deterministic causality?
Validation of a hypothesis by systematic observations to predict with certainty future events.
What is Stochastic Causality?
Assessment of a hypothesis by systematic observation to give the likelihood of future events.
Why is it not always best to give the best treatment to the individual in front of you?
The aim in medicine is to improve the health of the general population and these two things may not be the same thing.
Why is it important to look at the whole population?
Little information can be found from one case, and we can learn more about a disease by looking at a group of people with it. This allows us to use this knowledge to plan health services so that health of the general population can be promoted.
Why is it important to investigate causes of disease?
It means that links can be made and then preventative measures can be researched. However we cannot immediately assume causality, it is important we critically look at the data to check the results are not due to chance, bias, confounding etc.
