lecture 2 (research in medicine and healthcare)

Question 1

what is a non-intervention study vs an intervention-study?

Answer 1

non-intervention: no medicine prescribed, used to find correlations, used as control group

intervention: medicine prescribed, double-blind method used to avoid bias

Question 2

what are biomarkers and their requirements?

Answer 2

-anthropomorphic measurements
-changes within lifespan
-eg, height

requirements

-must reflect normal function, disease process, or predict the risk of future development of a disease

-routinely monitored over time

Question 3

hippocratic oath

Answer 3

medical practicers swear to do their best to help their patients