Principles-research

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A written report on details of a series of related cases

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Case series

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A written report on the details of a single case

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Case study

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Research that addresses issues directly related to patient care

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Clinical research

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A prospective longitudinal experiment designed to assess the comparative efficacy or effectiveness of a treatment, often labeled a randomized clinical trial(gold standard)if random assignment of subjects is made to each of the comparison treatment groups

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Clinical trial

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I defined group of people observed over a period of time

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Cohort

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A comparison group assignment in a clinical trial that receives no treatment a placebo treatment or an alternate treatment

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Control group

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Measurements taken at one moment in time

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Cross-sectional studies

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An experiment in which patients in other doctors or outcome assessors are blinded

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Double-blind study

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A general or statistical expression of how Often a condition or disease occurs

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Frequency

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A measure of agreed-upon accuracy and validity

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Gold standard

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The proportion of a clearly defined group initially free of a condition that develops it over a period of time

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Incidence

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The consistency of a measure of the resort between different practitioners evaluating the same thing

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Interobserver reliability

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The consistency in which one practitioner can consistently arrive at the same result

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Intraobserver reliability

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A study in which the researcher observes events as they occur naturally or in the course of a normal practice without attempting to influence them

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Observational study

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The proportion of the population of having a particular condition or outcome at a given moment

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Prevalence

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Study that follows overtime a group of similar individuals (cohorts) who would differ with respect to certain factors under study to determine how these factors affect rates of a certain outcome

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Prospective study

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Prospective of longitudinal study in which patients are divided into two or more groups of a randomized basis

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Randomize control

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Consistency of a measurement when repeated (reproducibility)

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Reliability

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Also called his stork whole heart study generally means to take a look back at events that have already taken place example medical records

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Retrospective study

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Proportion of times a diagnostic study is correct in patients without a specific diagnosis

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Sensitivity

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Study in which the patients are blinded as to whether they are in the experimental group or the comparison group

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Single-blind study

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The proportion of times a diagnostic procedure is positive in a patient with a specific diagnosis

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Specificity

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Degree to which in the observation or measurement provides an indication of a true state of the phenomena been measured

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Validity