Measurements of Diseases

Question 1

Tend to cluster in groups of people

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Diseases

Question 2

The study of spread of disease in a population

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Epidemiology

Question 3

A population are necessary follow trends, identity epidemics, and assess prevention and treatment programs

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Measurements of disease

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The number of new cases of a disease divided by the number of people at risk for the disease, over a given period of time. Because it measures an event over time, it is expressed as a rate

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Incidence

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The number of affected persons divided by the total population at a point in time

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Prevalence

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A measure of risk of getting the disease over a period of time for each member of the population

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Incidence

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Used to track baseline rates of disease and to measure the effectiveness of prevention programs

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Incidence

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Reflects the burden of the disease on the community

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Prevalence

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Goes up with increased incidence or successful management programs which lengthen life span

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Prevalance

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Describes the characteristics of a data set taken from a sample

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Descriptive statistics

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Makes comparisons and draws conclusions about a larger group based on the sample data

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Inferential statistics

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A collection of things having some quantifiable characteristics in common. There may be multiple characteristics

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Population

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Populations are defined by their common characteristics, called

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Inclusion criteria

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Populations are also defined by the common characteristics they lack, these are known as

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Exclusion criteria

Question 15

Use _____ when extrapolating the results of studies on a specific population to patients who do not meet all the inclusion and exclusion criteria

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caution

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Unmeasured characteristics in a population are important considerations in

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experimental design

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Based on studies of populations; the results can be applied to all individuals who belong to the population

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The science of inferential statistics

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So large that we cannot account for all the members

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Populations

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A population is a collection of things having some quantifiable characteristics in common. There may be

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multiple characteristics

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Populations have attributes called _____, which are numerical values that summarize the data

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parameters

Question 21

Even though population are ____, their parameters are ______. These are distinctly different from their quantifiable characteristics

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fluid, stable

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Continually used to update sources of medical information

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New evidence