- PPV will be very high.
- PPV will be very low, leading to many false positives.
- PPV will be unchanged.
- PPV becomes irrelevant.
Author: ETEA MCQS.COM
No category found.
- The drug manufacturer's sales department.
- A national pharmacovigilance system (e.g., FDA Adverse Event Reporting System, Yellow Card Scheme).
- Social media.
- Directly to the patient's insurance company.
- Anecdotal evidence.
- Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in humans.
- Qualitative research.
- Animal studies.
- Advise people to avoid public buildings.
- Immediately shut down and decontaminate the implicated cooling tower, and identify individuals who visited the building.
- Wait for the outbreak to subside naturally.
- Only treat the severe cases.
- Reverse causation.
- Information bias.
- Confounding.
- Selection bias.
- To increase the cost of the study.
- To control for the placebo effect and natural history of the disease.
- To make the study longer.
- To identify only severe side effects.
- Dismiss it as random chance.
- Conduct an environmental epidemiology investigation to identify potential occupational or environmental exposures.
- Blame the local hospital for misdiagnosis.
- Issue a general warning about cancer.
- Attributable Risk.
- Absolute Risk.
- Relative Risk.
- Cumulative Incidence.
- Sensitivity.
- Specificity.
- Positive Predictive Value.
- Negative Predictive Value (NPV).
- Information bias.
- Confounding.
- Selection bias.
- Observer bias.
- Efficacy trial.
- Effectiveness (or pragmatic) trial (Phase IV).
- Pre-clinical research.
- Phase I trial.
- Endemic.
- Pandemic.
- Epidemic.
- Sporadic.
- Increase law enforcement presence in the neighborhood.
- Conduct a rapid epidemiological investigation to identify the substances involved, common sources, and affected demographics.
- Blame the individuals for drug use.
- Wait for the number of deaths to stabilize.
- Selection bias.
- Recall bias (a type of information bias).
- Observer bias.
- Confounding.
- Cohort study.
- Cross-sectional study.
- Case-control study.
- Randomized controlled trial.
- Incidence.
- Prevalence.
- Basic Reproductive Number (R0?).
- Attack rate.
