Mood Disorders
This is the kind of study design you may use to investigate clinical characteristics of a patient population, with data collected primarily through chart reviews.
What is a descriptive study?
This is the section of a research article where the authors contextualize findings; address limitations of the research; and make recommendations for clinical practice.
What is the discussion section?
The rate of a disease is reported as the number of new cases per 100 of these.
What are person-years?
This is the type of correlation you see when an increase in your independent variable is associated with a decrease in your dependent variable.
What is a negative correlation?
Recommending a healthy, balanced diet and getting enough exercise is considered this type of prevention.
You are conducting this type of study when you are investigating the effect of probiotics on the risk for colorectal cancer by collecting data on participants randomly assigned to take or not take the probiotic.
What is an experimental study?
If you are stating this hypothesis, you are predicting there is a relationship between your independent and dependent variables.
What is the alternative hypothesis?
A COVID-19 PCR is considered to be this kind of diagnostic procedure.
What is a laboratory test?
This is another word for the exposure variable.
What is the independent variable?
What is tertiary prevention?
This is the term that describes words like "AND", "OR", and "NOT" used to conduct a literature search.
What are Boolean operators?
This is the type of study that was conducted when penicillin was withheld from African American men infected with syphilis to investigate the progression of the disease.
What is a harm study?
A test that can accurately detect the presence of a disease in patients who have the disease is said to have this.
What is sensitivity?
This type of study provides the highest level of evidence when it statistically combines the data from previous quantitative studies.
What is a meta-analysis?
This is the statistic that describes the cumulative probability of developing a certain disease over a certain period of time, derived by dividing the number of new cases in the population by the number of people in the population at the beginning of data collection.
What is risk?
This is another word for the outcome variable.
What is the dependent variable?
These are the PICO components of your research question.
What are patient/problem/population; intervention; comparison/control; and outcome?
This is the statistic that describes the proportion of a population with a certain disease at a specific point in time, calculated by the number of existing cases divided by the number of people in the population at that time.
What is point prevalence?
This the percent relative risk when one group is twice as likely to experience a certain outcome than another group.
What is 200%?
This is what you do when you evaluate a research article for the gaps in research, methods, statistical analyses and values, results, and limitations of the research.
What is a critical appraisal?
This describes the process of asking a focused research question, searching and appraising the literature, and applying the recommendations from the literature to a patient case.
What is evidence-based medicine?
This is the kind of review you are conducting when you collate, summarize, and report the results of existing research, but you neither ask nor answer a research question.
What is a scoping review?
A distribution is said to have a negative skew when most of the data fall to this direction of the mean.
What is left?
This is what you do when you gather the information necessary to formulate an accurate diagnosis and may include taking a medical history and evaluating symptoms.
What is assessment?
If you are stating this hypothesis, you are predicting there is no relationship between your independent and dependent variables.
What is a null hypothesis?