Epidemiology
The probability of a person being newly diagnosed with a disease during a given period of time.
What is incidence?
The degree to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
The ability of a test to provide consistent results when repeated.
What is reliability?
This refers to the usefulness of a test in meeting the needs of patient, referrer and payer.
What is test utility?
This study is conducted at a single point in time.
What is a cross-sectional study?
The proportion of people in a population at any given period of time with a disease.
What is prevalence?
The ability of a test to include or represent all of the content of a construct.
What is content validity?
The ability for a single doctor to repeat his or her findings if nothing in the patient has changed.
What is intra-rater reliability?
Activities, disciplines and methods that are available to identify, implement and monitor the available evidence in health care.
What are best practices?
This kind of study is retrospective in nature.
What is a case-control study?
An exposure must occur prior to the onset of a disease.
What is temporality?
The test just seems to make logical sense.
What is face validity?
Your instructor gives out two different versions of the same test.
What is parallel forms reliability?
This category of outcome measure is best used to assess specific conditions.
What are the specific health-related quality of life instruments?
This can be calculated from a 2x2 contingency table of a case-control study.
What is an odds ratio?
The more exposure to a a risk factor, the more likely the disease should occur.
What is dose-response?
The percentage of people with a condition who test positive in a test.
What is sensitivity?
This measures internal consistency of a questionnaire.
What is Cronbach's alpha?
This assesses pain at its worst, as it is right now and overall in average pain.
What is Characteristic Pain Intensity?
This kind of study is useful for studying common diseases in large populations.
What is a cohort study?
This form of an epidemiological study is prospective.
What is a cohort study.
Sensitivity divided by (1-specificity)
What is a positive likelihood ratio?
An ICC of .80.
What is excellent reliability?
The most widely used pain measure.
What is the McGill Pain Questionnaire?
This is the ratio of those exposed to a risk factor who develop the condition to those who are not exposed and develop the condition of interest.
What is a risk ratio?