MD EVIDENCE BASED DENTISTRY Flashcards
HEIRCHY OF EVIDENCE:
BEST AND WORS TYPE OF STUDY?
Best: META ANALYSIS (analysis combines multiple studies)
Worst: IN VITRO STUDIES (test tube)
epedemiological studies
quantify disease status in a community
survey or measurement taken to represent a snapshot in time, prevelance
case control study
cross sectional study
prospective cohort study
retrospective cohort study
CROSS SECTIONAL
same day sudy
people with a condition are compared to people without it (control) in the past, odds ratio
case control study
cross sectional study
prospective cohort study
retrospective cohort study
CASE CONTROL STUDY
cohort followed thorugh time to see who develops a diseae, incidence and related risk
case control study
cross sectional study
prospective cohort study
retrospective cohort study
PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
look back after following cohort and decide what disease you want to look for, incidence and relative risk
case control study
cross sectional study
prospective cohort study
retrospective cohort study
RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
A scientist wanted to do a study on how many alcholohic patients have oral cancer so he took a sample size of an area.
case control study
cross sectional study
prospective cohort study
retrospective cohort study
CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY ( survey to find prevelance)
a researcher is trying to find link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer
case control study
cross sectional study
prospective cohort study
retrospective cohort study
purpose of analytical and observational studies?
detemrine the etiology (cause) of disease
what is the purpose of CLINICAL TRIAL?
isolate one factor and examine its contribution to patients health by holding all other factors as constant as possible
best tool for doing an experimental study?
RANDOMIZATION
best type of clinical trial to do
single blind
double blind
random sampling
random allocation
DOUBLE BLIND !!
for frequency distributions, what is the shape of NORMAL DISTRIBTUION?
BELL SHAPED
IMAGE : bell shape is middle red
How do we measure the RANGE of a set of numbers?
maximum - minimum = range
how spread out individual values are from the mean is called what?
VARIANCE