DI Resources
"Assessing Results"
Study Designs
Tables and Graphs
Who knows?
100
This resource for drugs used in pregnancy and lactation can be found in Facts and Comparisons.
What is Briggs?
100
For every 12 patients treated with pegfilgrastim over filgrastim, one additional event of febrile neutropenia will be prevented over the course of four chemotherapy cycles. This statement is an example of what?
What is the number needed to treat?
100
This study design identifies groups of participants based on exposure to a risk factor or intervention and follows them forward to evaluate the incidence of a specific outcome.
What is cohort study?
100
The black bar indicated below the curve represents this range which tells one how precisely they determined the mean.
What is confidence interval?
100
This citation style is the preferred method used by the DI center.
What is AMA?
200
This drug information resource is a database of adverse events reported voluntarily through the MedWatch program.
What is FAERS Dashboard?
200
To convert probability into odds, you should divide probability by ________.
What is one minus probability?
200
In this type of blinding, neither the researchers nor participants know which intervention group the participants belong to.
What is double blinding?
200
Also known as the blobbogram, this graph compares the weighted results from multiple studies addressing the same question across the same plot. It commonly appears in meta-analyses.
What is forest plot?
200
These endpoints measure things about a patient’s disease state that they would care about or that would have an impact on their life.
What is patient-oriented outcomes?
300
This resource is a list of biological products with reference and biosimilarity evaluations.
What is the Purple Book?
300
Minimum sample size for an experimental study is determined by using this analysis.
What is power analysis?
300
This section of a study is the ideal place to look when evaluating the internal validity of a study’s results.
What is a methodology?
300
This graph is also known as a survival curve and is an estimate of the probability of survival over time following an intervention.
What is Kaplan-Meier curve?
300
When the Health Sciences Library doesn’t have online access to an article you need, one way you can request access is through this service.
What is InterLibrary Loan?
400
This resource is free to pharmacy students and you should have already signed up for its online newsletter.
What is Pharmacist's Letter?
400
This measure of risk takes time into account.
What is Hazard Ratio?
400
A statistical analysis that pools data from individual studies included in systematic reviews.
What is meta-analysis?
400
Method of data analysis where all patients that were included in randomization are analyzed according to their original assigned intervention group regardless of treatment given.
What is intention-to-treat analysis?
400
In the following question, name the patient population for a PICO search methodology. Does the dose of gabapentin influence diabetic neuropathy symptom relief?
What is diabetic patients?
500
These three resources contain information specifically about antibiotics and infectious diseases.
What are IDSA Guidelines, the John Hopkins Antibiotic Guide, and the Sanford Guide?
500
In a study comparing pegfilgrastim to placebo, bone pain occurred in 146 out of 471 patients (31%) as compared to 126 out of 466 patients (27%) in the pegfilgrastim and placebo groups, respectively (P = 0.067). The number needed to harm is ___________.
What is unimportant/should not be calculated?
500
In a RCT where interventions can not be made identical, a blinding method is utilized where one group receives Treatment A (tablet) and Placebo B (injection) and the other group receives Placebo A (tablet) and Treatment B (injection).
What is double dummy?
500
The left side of this graph favors a new drug therapy and the right side favors an active comparator. The left dotted line represents a relative risk of 1. The dotted line on the right represents what?
What is the margin of non-inferiority?
500
An error or deviation that can occur in the methodology, analysis, interpretation or publication of a study and which affects the validity of a study.
What is bias?