Spring Semester Exam 1 Flashcards
What were the top 5 causes of death in the US in 2016?
- Heart disease
- Cancer
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases
- Accidents
- Stroke
Screening involves looking for a disease or risk factor in a patient who is otherwise ___.
Asymptomatic
What are the 5 qualities of a good screening test?
- High sensitivity and specificity
- High positive predictive value
- Simplicity and low cost
- Safety
- Acceptable to patients and clinicians
The number of people that must be screened to measure the magnitude of benefit is typically ___ to prevent 1 death.
Several hundred to more than 1,000
What are some of the adverse effects of screening?
- False positives
- Over-diagnoses
- Ability to treat
The ___ systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness and develops recommendations for clinical preventive services.
USPSTF
True or false - the cost of preventive services has a primary role in determining USPSTF recommendations.
False - the cost of preventive services has no role or influence.
What are the three USPSTF ratings for strength of overall evidence?
- Good
- Fair
- Poor
A “good” USPSTF strength rating involves evidence that includes ___ results from ___ studies in ___ populations that ___ assesses effects on health outcomes.
Consistent; Well-designed; Representative; Directly
A “fair” USPSTF strength rating involves evidence that is ___ to determine effects on health outcomes, but the strength of the evidence is limited by the number, quality, or consistency of the individual studies, ___ to routine practice, or ___ nature of the evidence on health outcomes.
Sufficient; generalizability; indirect
A “poor” USPSTF strength rating involves evidence that is ___ to assess the effects on health outcomes because of limited number of power of studies, important ___ in their design or conduct, ___ in the chain or evidence, or lack of information on important health ___.
Insufficient; flaws; gaps; outcomes
What are the 5 types of USPSTF recommendations? Describe them.
A: strongly recommends/good evidence improves outcomes and benefits outweigh risks
B: recommends/fair evidence improves outcomes and benefits outweigh risks
C: no recommendation for or against/fair evidence to improve outcomes but harms = benefits
D: Recommend against/fair evidence for ineffective or harms > benefits
I: insufficient to recommend for or against/evidence is lacking or evidence of poor quality or conflicting evidence or benefit vs. harm cannot be determined
What is an example of an A Recommendation?
Screening for colorectal cancer, age 50-75
What are 2 examples of B Recommendations?
Screening adults for depression; breast cancer screening age 50-74
What are 2 examples of C Recommendations?
Routine screening for colorectal cancer age 76-85, breast cancer screening age 40-49
What are 3 examples of D Recommendations?
Screening for asymptomatic bacteruria in men and non-pregnant women, prostate cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening > age 85
What is an example of an I Recommendation?
Screening for oral cancer in asymptomatic adults
What are 2 ways for clinicians to get USPSTF recommendations?
- USPSTF website
2. ePSS app
What are Berwick’s 4 safety concerns?
- Don’t kill me.
- Don’t hurt me.
- Don’t make me feel helpless, take away clothes, insert things into me
- Don’t make me wait
What are the three major aspects of the universal protocol for surgery?
- Conduct a pre-procedure verification process.
- Mark the procedure site before the procedure is performed.
- Perform a time-out.
What are variables measured on a numerical scale?
Quantitative variables
What are variables not measured on a numerical scale?
Categorical (qualitative) variables
What are nominal variables?
Data that has no intrinsic order (hair colors, types of cars)
What are ordinal variables?
Data that has an intrinsic order (satisfaction scale)
What are interval variables?
Like ordinal data in that it follows a clear order but there is also a clear quantitative difference between value; does not have a meaningful zero (temperature)
What are ratio variables?
Like interval data but can be reported as ratios; does have a meaningful zero (exam scores)
What are the two types of quantitative variables?
Interval and ratio
Quantitative variables can be discrete or continuous. What is the difference?
Discrete variables: whole numbers, no in-between
Continuous variables: intermediary variables (weight)
What are the three measurements of central tendency?
- Mean
- Median
- Mode
What is the mean?
Sum of all values/divided by # of values
What is the median?
Center number in the ordered sequence of data
What is the mode?
Most common number in the series
Which types of variables can be measured with mean, median, mode?
Nominal: mode
Ordinal: median and mode
Interval and Ratio: all 3
What are the three types of variability?
Biologic
Measurement
Statistical
What is biologic variability?
Difference in values of variables due to physiologic differences
What are the two types of biologic variability?
- Inter-individual variability
2. Intra-individual variability
What is measurement variability?
Variability based on differences due to the person performing the test (observer) and due to instrument being used (measurement)
What is statistical variability?
Dispersion, scatter, spread; describes how spread out a group of data is
What are the 4 measures of statistical variability?
- Range
- Interquartile range
- Variance
- Standard Deviation
What is range?
Difference between the highest and lowest values; significant limitations
What is interquartile range?
Less affected by extreme values; range of the middle 50% of scores
What is variance?
Variability among data points (how far each number in the set is from the mean)
What is standard deviation?
Average difference between the data points and the mean
What is a pattern of occurrence of variables?
Distribution
What are the two main types of distributions?
Discrete and Continuous (normal and non-normal)
What is the rule that describes a normal/Gaussian distribution?
68 (1 SD)
95 (2 SD)
99 (3 SD)
Describe non-normal distributions (skews).
Positive skew - skews to the right
Negative skew - skews to the left
What is the gold standard of diagnostic testing?
- Most accurate with no restrictions
2. Best test with reasonable conditions
An ideal diagnostic test would have no ___ and ___.
False negatives; false positives
Describe the 4 outcomes of diagnostic testing.
- True positive: positive test result, has disease
- False positive: positive test result, does not have disease
- False negative: negative test result, has disease
- True negative: negative test result, does not have disease
What is the probability that a test is positive when the disease is present or positive?
Sensitivity (true positive rate)
What is the probability that a test is negative when the disease is absent or negative?
Specificity (true negative rate)
Sensitivity = ?
True positive/Total disease positive
Specificity = ?
True negative/Total disease negative
When is sensitivity most helpful?
When the test is negative because there will be no false negatives; sensitivity helps rule OUT the disease (SNOUT)
When is specificity most helpful?
When the test is positive because there will be no false positives; helps rule IN the disease (SPIN)
What is prevalence?
Number of patients who have a disease among a population of people who both have and do not have the disease; = total disease positive/total population
What is a positive predictive value?
Probability that a person with a positive test will have the disease
What is a negative predictive value?
Probability of not having the disease with a negative test result
Positive predictive value = ?
True positive/Total test positive
Negative predictive value = ?
True negative/total test negative
Pre-test probability is ___. Post-test probability is ___.
Prevalence; predictive value
When prevalence is high, the PPV will be ___ and the NPV will be ___.
Higher; lower
When prevalence is low, the PPV will be ___ and the NPV will be ___.
Lower; higher
What is freedom from accidental injury caused by medical care or medical error, preventing harm to the patient?
Patient safety
What is a medical error?
An unintended act (omission or commission) or an act that does not achieve its intended outcome
What is excluded from the definition of medical error?
Acts that did not achieve their desired outcomes because of underlying illness or additional patient comorbidities and outcomes known to be risks of specific procedures