STATISTICS
This term refers to a cut-off, often 0.05, that is used to assess whether statistical significance exists.
What is p value?
This type of study design randomly assigns subjects to groups to test the effectiveness of an intervention. This design is often considered the "gold standard" in research.
What is a randomized controlled trial or RCT?
Give 2 examples of scholarly activity.
What is a conference presentation (e.g., oral/poster)? What is an academic publication (e.g., journal article, book, textbook)?
What is a case report?
What is a peer-reviewed grant?
What are electronic education materials?
What are QI and/or patient safety initiatives?
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IRB, which stands for this, is a committee that must review all research involving human subjects prior to implementation to ensure that the research proposed is ethical.
What is Institutional Review Board?
This snack is often served with fish at many restaurants in the UK.
What are chips?
This type of statistical test is used to determine if there is a statistically significant difference between the means of two groups.
What is a t-test?
This type of study design is an observational study that provides a snapshot of the population at a specific point in time.
What is a cross-sectional study?
In order to start a research project, you must decide on a topic and develop one of these, which is the guiding question your projects aims to answer.
What is a research question?
This type of information includes identifiable health information about subjects of clinical research gathered by a researcher. Examples include patient name, address, date of birth, telephone number and email address.
What is protected health information (PHI)?
This professional football franchise has won 6 Super Bowls in the past 18 years.
Who are the New England Patriots?
Also known as "n", this term represents the number of individual data points (e.g., patients) in a study.
What is sample size?
This type of study design follows a group of individuals over an extended period of time.
What is a longitudinal (cohort) study?
This section of a research paper provides a summary of the paper and gives readers an idea of what’s to come in the rest of the paper.
What is an abstract?
Due to unethical studies that have been conducted in the past such as the Tuskegee syphilis study, study participants are required to sign this form prior to participating in a study.
What is informed consent form?
This type of animal eats food such as insects, rodents, frogs, birds, and lizards by swallowing its prey whole.
What is a snake?
This term is often used in research publications to describe the range of values that is likely to contain the value of interest.
What is confidence interval?
This type of study design might compare the past medical history of patients who have a disease or outcome of interest with those who do not have the disease or outcome.
What is a case-control study?
This process is designed to assess the validity, quality, and originality of an article for publication by having experts in the field review the article.
What is peer review process?
This report describes respect, beneficence, and justice as key components of clinical research on human subjects.
What is the Belmont Report?
This movie, which came out in 2019, is the highest grossing film of all time raking in $2.8 billion.
What is Avengers: Endgame?
This statistic describes the strength of the association between two variables.
What is correlation?
This type of study design provides a comprehensive review of all relevant studies on a particular health or clinical topic.
What is a systematic review?
This term is used to measure the importance of a journal by calculating the number of times selected articles are cited within the last few years.
What is impact factor?
This type of clinical research refers to the practice of looking for better ways to identify a particular disorder or condition.
What is diagnostic research?
They were the only two US presidents to sign the Constitution.
Who are George Washington and James Madison?