Miscellaneous

Question 1

what is the true negative test?

Answer 1

specificity

Question 2

what is the true positive test?

Answer 2

sensitivity

Question 3

What is specificity

Answer 3

Measure percent of the patients without the disease that are identified correctly.

Question 4

What is sensitivity

Answer 4

Measure percentage of people with the disease that are identified.

Question 5

What is the formula for specificity (true neg test)

Answer 5

Divide true negs by total number of patients without the disease.

Question 6

what is the formula for sensitivity (true positives)?

Answer 6

Divide number of positives by total number of people with the disease.

Question 7

Tell apart specificity and sensitivity

Answer 7

specificity identifies those that don’t have the disease and sensitivity identifies those that do have the disease.

Question 8

What is the difference between a phase II and phase III trial.

Answer 8

Phase II looks at safety and effectiveness.
Phase III compares to standard therapy

Question 9

What is sensitivity and it’s formula

Answer 9

ability to identify the number of positive people with the disease. true positives rate = true positives + false negatives

Question 10

What is specificity

Answer 10

ability to identify those that don’t have the disease.

Question 11

what is sensitivity also called? and

Answer 11

true positive rate

Question 12

What is specificity also called

Answer 12

true negative rate

Question 13

How do you calculate the Positive predictive value

Answer 13

true positives / true positives +false positives

Question 14

What does prevalence mean

Answer 14

Number of cases in a given population at a given point in time.

Question 15

What does incidence mean.

Answer 15

number of new cases reported over a given time.

Question 16

how to tell the ester from the amide anesthetics from their chemical structure

Answer 16

The aromatic ring is connected to a carbon in the ester form and a N in the amide form.

Question 17

what part of the chemical formula of anesthetics is responsible for the potentcy?

Answer 17

The aromatic ring as it is lipophilic

The more lipophilic the more enters the cell.

Question 18

What detrimines the onset of action and the duration of an anesthetic?

Answer 18

The amine group

Question 19

What is genetic polymorphism

Answer 19

when multiple alleles can occupy a gene locus in the same population variations my arise as mutations

Question 20

what is genetic imprinting

Answer 20

when gene expression depends on whether it was inheritited from the mother or father.

Question 22

In stageing for MF what do each of the letters represent.

T

N

M

B

Answer 22

T skin (1<10%, 2,>10% 3Nodules 4 Erythema)

Nodes

M visceral involvement (o no, 1 yes)

B sezary cells (0 5%