MCQ Principles of A&M Flashcards
Validity
Accuracy of a study
Reliability
Consistency and repeatability of a study
Quantitative data
- Numbers
- Statistics
Qualitative Data
- Survey
- Questionaire
Standardised assessments
- No variation
- Same method/procedure
- usually the same outcome
Non standardised Assessment
-Hard to repeat
-Variety/change
-Less valid
- Different outcome
What are the four types of instrument validity?
-Face
-Content
-Criterion
-Construct
What are the two types of study validity?
-Internal
-External
What are the four types of reliability?
- Internal
-Test/Retest
-Inter-rated
-Intra-rater
What are the four levels of measurement? (NOIR)
-Nominal
-Ordinal
-Ratio
-Interval scale
Specificity
How well a test rejects people without the condition or disease.
Sensitivity
How well test detects people with the condition or people
Audit
-Quality improvement process+ tool
-Clinical governance
What are the two types of audit
-Peer review
-Surveys/Focus groups
Central tendency (Mean)
A value that attempts to describe a set of data by identifying the central position.
Sensitivity
TP / TP + FN
Specificity
TN / TN + FP