STATISTICS
STUDY DESIGNS
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
CLINICAL RESEARCH
HODGEPODGE
100

This term refers to a cut-off, often 0.05, that is used to assess whether statistical significance exists.

What is p value?

100

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?

100

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?

(Other acceptable responses)

100

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?

100

This snack is often served with fish at many restaurants in the UK.

What are chips?

200

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?

200

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?

200

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?

200

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)?

200

This professional football franchise has won 6 Super Bowls in the past 18 years. 

Who are the New England Patriots?

300

Also known as "n", this term represents the number of individual data points (e.g., patients) in a study. 

What is sample size?

300

This type of study design follows a group of individuals over an extended period of time.

What is a longitudinal (cohort) study?

300

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?

300

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?

300

This type of animal eats food such as insects, rodents, frogs, birds, and lizards by swallowing its prey whole.

What is a snake?

400

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?

400

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?

400

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?

400

This report describes respect, beneficence, and justice as key components of clinical research on human subjects.

What is the Belmont Report?

400

This movie, which came out in 2019, is the highest grossing film of all time raking in $2.8 billion.

What is Avengers: Endgame?

500

This statistic describes the strength of the association between two variables.

What is correlation?

500

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?

500

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?

500

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?

500

They were the only two US presidents to sign the Constitution.

Who are George Washington and James Madison?

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