Reliability
Validity
Miscellaneous
Types of Research
Characteristics of Patient Oriented Outcomes Assessments
100

In relation to a research study's methods, this term refers to the quality of measurement, its consistency.

What is reliability?

100

The type of validity that is determined by experr opinion or subjective assessment.  

What is Face Validity?

100

The name of the school where I am getting my PhD degree.

What is Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center?

100

The type of research that involves, collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data by observing what people do and say.  

What is Qualitative Research?

100

This involves medical care that respects differences in patients and appreciates their uniqueness, respecting the unique values and needs of patients. 

What is Patient-Centered Care?

200

The best possible number that could result from a reliability test.  

What is 1.00?

200

This type of validity measures an abstract concept, such as a program that has been implemented for the first time.  

What is Construct Validity?

200

The institution where Jackie received her bachelor's degree that allowed her to sit for the BOC exam?

What is Frostburg State University?

200

The type of research that combines statistical information, typically from randomized controlled trials, to provide an overall estimate of a treatment's effect. 

What is Meta-Analysis?

200

This type of patient oriented outcome is described as being global in scope and applicable to a wide range of people, including healthy, injured, or ill populations.  

What are generic outcome measures?

300

This type of reliability testing involves testing of multiple raters to show their efficiency in taking measurements for the research study.  

What is Interrater Reliability?

300

The type of validity that measures if "all of the content from the whole semester was tested on the final exam versus just the last 3 weeks of content from the semester". 

What is Content Validity?

300

The home pregnancy test has high specificity.  If the test is positive, you can believe that this is correct. SnOUT or SpIN (Hint: think in reverse!!)

What is SpIN?

300
This type of research uses measurements that are objectice and statistically valid.  

What is Quantitative Research?

300
This is an example of a common specific patient-reported outcome instrument.

Moderator decision

400

The name of the reliabiltity testing result. (Hint: ICC)

What is Intraclass Correlation Coefficient?

400

This type of validity shows how well the methods of the research study are carried out. 

What is Internal Validity?

400

The inversion stress test for the ankle has high sensitivity.  If you get a negative test, you can be sure that the ATF does not have laxity (Hint: think in reverse!)

SpIN or SnOUT? 

What is SnOUT?

400
This is developed when a clinician sees a reoccuring situation or injury in the clinical setting and decides to study why it keeps happening.

What is a research question?

500

This type of reliability testing involves testing the efficiency of one rater to take measurements during a research study. 

What is Intrarater Reliability?

500

This term refers to the concept where a research study's methods that actually test what the study is intended to test

What is Validity?

500

The likelihood that a person who tests negative does not have the condition.  

What is negative predictive value?

500

This type of study involves a report on the patient and his/her mechanism of injury, the treatment, rehabilitation, and outcomes of the treatment and rehabilitation.  

What is a Case Report or Case Study?