Risk and Bradford Hill Flashcards
Why is risk important?
It can prevent the disease occurring in the first place.
How do you determine the best cause of action when a risk is posed?
Assess the patient and their risk factors and their risk indicators.
What is a risk factor?
A characteristic that has been directly shown tp cause disease.
It is causal.
The presence does not mean you will get the disease.
What is a risk indicator?
The behavioural and socioeconomic characteristics that are associated with disease but are not considered to caused the disease.
What is specificity?
The one-to-one effect of the cause on the outcome but this is rare as many diseases have multiple causes.
What is temporality?
Oral health’s relationship wi time.
what is (biological) plausibility?
A causal association between a putative cause and condition based upon current medical knowledge.
What is coherance?
The association must not go against generally known facts of the disease.
What is experimental evidence?
It is the strongest support for causation, however ethics is a grey area when it comes to this.
What is an anology?
Similar exposure and outcome to one already known.
What is in the Bradford Hill Criteria?
Temporality
Plausibility
Consistency
Strength
Dose response
Reversibility
Study design
Evidence
What is temporality?
A relationship with time.
What is plausibility?
The quality of something being probable.
What is consistency?
Getting similar results
What is strength?
The link between cause and effect.
