Studies
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What is snowball sampling?
When both participants and researchers are unaware of which treatment group they have been assigned to
What is double blinding?
categories such as keywords, authors, journal titles etc. that can be used to limit or expand a database search
What are fields?
any clinical endpoint of interest
what is outcome?
A qualitative methodology that involves researchers immersing into a group of people with unique cultural or social characteristics to observe and understand
What is ethnography?
A type of observational study in which both exposure and outcome have already occurred and are being analyzed retrospectively
What is case control study?
what is peer review?
a feature of a journal in which academics/readers write in and respond to article
what is a letter to the editor?
the step by step description of procedures, may be externally validated
what is a protocol?
An influencer of sorts, but not the real cause
what is a confounder?
An experimental study where the researcher randomly assigns participants to either control or treatment groups and follows them prospectively
What is a randomized controlled trial?
Refers to the capacity of the study to be replicated by another investigator or in another setting
What is internal validity?
a critique, synthesis, or analysis of the existing research on a given topic, highlighting key themes and gaps
What is a literature review?
a reference to a journal article
what is a citation?
what is compliance?
A study that explores causative relationships between naturally occurring events ; without manipulating those events
What is an observational study?
A good research study question is feasible, interesting, _____________, ethical, and relevant
What is novel?
AND, OR, NOT-used to refine, broaden, or restrict search results
what are boolean operators?
An "if___, then_____" statement. Often framed in the null.
what is a hypothesis ?
Once a study is complete, this must be done, but it does not involve other languages
what is knowledge translation?
A type of study that seeks to explore meaning and relationships between things using non-numerical data
what is qualitative study?
The capacity of a study to be generalized to other groups or clinical settings
what is external validity?
The most common research database for health sciences research
What is pub med?
Empirical evidence that the results of a study are not due to chance or random error, less than 0.05.
What is statistical significance or p-value?
A type of review in which similar studies have all of their data pooled
what is a meta-analysis?