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are audits and service evaluations called research in the NHS

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No

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Difference between an audit and service eval?

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Audit- are standards being met, using existing standards and existing management data
SE- what factors are responsible- information gathering.

Both look at existing practice (research looks at new practice)

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What does PECOS stand for?

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Patient/participant/people
Exposure/event/experimental intervention
Comparison
Outcome
Study design
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What is MeSH?

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Medical subject headings- all papers should be indexed with their relevant MeSH terms to be looked up.

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3 competing priorities in studies?

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  • correct answer
  • managing resources
  • complying with regulations
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What is selection bias

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  • non-representative sample

- selection influences exposure and outcome (confounding)

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What are 3 types of measurement bias

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Information
Observer
Recall

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What is information bias

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Mis-classified or mis-collected data

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What is observer bias

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the observers (or researcher team) know the goals of the study or the hypotheses and allow this knowledge to influence their observations during the study.

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What is recall/prestige bias

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Response is influenced by prior knowledge or belief

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3 types of analytical bias

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Loss to follow up
Omitted variable
Attributional

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What is loss to follow up

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Specific participants excluded

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What is omitted variable bias

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Imprecise adjustment for confounding variables

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What is attributional bias

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Misperception/incorrect interpretation of why something caused something else

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What is publication bias?

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exciting research is published more than boring research/research with no interesting outcome

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Cross sectional studies provide evidence of association ____ a sample

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Within

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Case-control studies provide evidence of association _______ samples

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Between

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Cohort studies provide evidence of ____________

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Directionality of associations

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Trials provide evidence of _____

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Causality

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Meta-analyses provide evidence of _________

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Reproducibility/generalisability

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What is STROBE

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Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology

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Observation –> pattern –> tentative hypothesis –> theory is what sort of reasoning?

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Inductive/descriptive

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Theory –> hypothesis –> testing –> observation –>reject/don’t reject is what sort of reasoning?

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Deductive/analytical

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Case studies involve what sort of reasoning?

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Inductive

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Analytical reasoning is observational or experimental. What is the difference?
Observational- selective sampling e.g. cross sectional or cohort study Experimental- selective exposure e.g. a trial
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What 3 things did the Belmont report decide?
Ethical concepts: 1. Respect for persons- informed consent 2. Justice- equitable distribution of burdens and benefits 3. Beneficence- risks to human subjects must be justified by the value of the knowledge the study is expected to generate
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What 6 things are required for participation to be voluntary?
1. Informed participants 2. Consented participants 3. Reward-free 4. Free to decline 5. Free to withdraw 6. Rights protection
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What are the 4 vulnerable groups?
1. limited agency (children) 2. diminished autonomy (dementia) 3. with needs (unwell) 4. unable to consent (unconscious)
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What is meant by ethics
Ensuring projects maximise benefits and minimise risks
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what is meant by governance
Appropriate permissions
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Does this require ethical approval: | data/material that is already publicly available
No
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Does this require ethical approval: | projects collecting new info only on existing service delivery
No
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Does this require ethical approval: | Non human subjects covered by the animals act 1986
yes
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Does this require ethical approval: | Projects on non-human subjects/materials
No
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Does this require ethical approval: | Projects involving a new intervention
Yes
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Does this require ethical approval: | Service evaluations involving vulnerable participants or ethically sensitive data
Yes
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Does this require ethical approval: | Projects using only existing service management data
No
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Does this require ethical approval: | Projects collecting new information on more than only existing service delivery
Yes
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What 3 things must a project protocol include?
Why the project is necessary What it will involve How it will avoid ethical, legal, governance issues
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When must ethical approval be re-applied for after already having been granted?
Substantial changes | Unexpected deleterious effects
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3 types of sampling
Complete Unstratified random Stratified random
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What is a p value
Probability that the results are by chance if the null hypothesis is true (i.e. your exposure has no effect)
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What p value is normally accepted for something to be significantly different from the null hypothesis?
P<0.05
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What is an odds ratio
the odds that an outcome will occur given a particular exposure, compared to the odds of the outcome occurring in the absence of that exposure.
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a 95% confidence interval will......?
Contain the true value that we are trying to estimate 95% of the time
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A confidence interval of what value means that results are inconclusive?
If the interval crosses odds ratio of 1.
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increasing/decreasing sample size will increase/decrease confidence interval
Increase, decrease
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What is power?
The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is false (I.E. finding an association, if it is indeed there to be found)
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What makes a power greater?
Mean effect is bigger Little variation Large sample size
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When do you calculate power?
Before conducting a study to test design and to be able to justify. After conducting an inconclusive study- to demonstrate that you were sufficiently well-powered to detect an association
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What value of power do we normally aim for?
80%
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What is odds???
The probability that something occurs divided by the probability that it doesn't occur (exposed/unexposed)
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What is the odds ratio if no effect?
1 i.e. the null effect. Don't want this to be in the confidence intervals!
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Do you need to adjust for confounders?
Yes because they suggest a false statistical relationship
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Do you need to adjust for mediators?
No because they are part of the causative pathway
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Do you need to adjust for competing exposures?
You can if you want, might make the association easier to detect
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Give an example of a functional causal relationship
no contraception results in teenage mother
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e.g. of empirical causal relationship
Based on previous statistical analysis
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e.g. of theoretical causal relationship
teenage grandmother = teenage mother
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e.g. of speculative causal relationship
teenage grandfather = teenage mother
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What is a latent variable?
Missing data
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How can you cope with a latent variable?
If it is the exposure or outcome- change the study | If it is a confounding variable could use a proxy e.g. how many takeaways in place of saturated fat.
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How can you cope with missingness?
Compare to other participants Create a 'missing' category Interpolate (i.e. statistically estimate) the measurement
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When do you do a logistic regression?
When the outcome is binary
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What does an R^2 of 1 mean?
Perfect correlation
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Is a higher or lower R^2 better?
Higher
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R^2 is between what numbers
0-1
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When is a pseudo R^2 used?
Logistic regression
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When is R^2 used?
Linear regression
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What is COREQ
Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research- a 32 item checklist for interviews and focus groups. Useful tool when carrying out qual research.
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In qualitative research what is induction?
Generating a universal statement from individual cases
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In qualitative research what is deduction?
Using theories to explain individual cases
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In qualitative research what is purposive sampling?
Choosing participants who have the potential to provide rich, relevant and diverse data relevant to the research question
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In qualitative research what is maximum variability sampling?
Wide range of experiences, no preconceptions. Exploratory.

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