Studies
A type of study/research that focuses on the 'why' and 'how,' rather than the 'how many'
What is Qualitative?
A method of sampling that has been compared to multilevel marketing or pyramid schemes
What is snowball sampling?
Categories such as keywords, authors, journal titles etc. that can be used to limit or expand a database search
What are fields?
Any clinical endpoint of interest
What is an outcome?
Usually set at 95%, it's an A+ in my books
What is the confidence interval?
A type of observational study in which both exposure and outcome have already occurred and are being studied retrospectively
What is a case-control study?
You may need 100 or 1000 people for your findings to be accurate. This is how you determine that...
What is a sample size calculation?
This is the most commonly used database for research in the medical field, but you won't be able to order a craft beer
What is pub med?
A step-by-step description of concrete procedures to be carried out during a research study, which anyone else could follow to replicate the study
What is the study protocol?
A type of study in which a research immerses themselves within a group to gain a better depth of understanding
What is ethnography?
An experimental study where the researcher randomly assigns treatment to participants
What is a randomized clinical trial?
How true the study conclusions are, for the participants in the study
What is internal validity?
This research database, is not really a database
What is google scholar?
A unique reference to a journal article
What is a citation?
It's a spicy way to specify your topic, but not de gallo
What is PICO(T)?
A study that explains a connection between naturally occurring events; without manipulating those events
What is an observational study?
It might be small, but it's not insignificant...
What is a p-value less than 0.05?
Combining search terms with "AND" or "OR"
What are Boolean operators?
The process of a research study being scrutinized by other experts in the field prior to publication
What is peer review?
Pooled data about swimming pools, that's so _______...analysis
What is meta?
Another name for cohort or longitudinal study
What is prospective study?
The capacity of a study to be generalized to other groups or situations
What is external validity?
Paramed*
What is a wildcard?
A research question, but prove it wrong
What is a hypothesis?
A way of finding study participants that have unique and specific knowledge about your topic
What is purposive sampling?