- The study was biased.
- The generalizability (external validity) of the findings may be limited.
- The drug is ineffective.
- The study was too expensive.
Category: Epidemoilogy
- Relative Risk.
- Odds Ratio.
- Absolute Risk.
- Prevalence.
- Clinical efficacy is the only concern.
- Balancing individual benefit with societal resource allocation and equitable access.
- The drug should be freely available to everyone.
- Cost is irrelevant for life-saving drugs.
- Blame mothers for not seeking prenatal care.
- Initiate rapid contact tracing of mothers and their partners, and implement enhanced screening and treatment programs for pregnant women.
- Only treat the affected newborns.
- Issue a general warning about sexually transmitted infections.
- Biostatistics.
- Public Health.
- Epidemiology.
- Clinical Medicine.
- Single-blinding.
- Double-blinding.
- Triple-blinding.
- Open-label.
- Relative Risk.
- Odds Ratio.
- Number Needed to Treat (NNT).
- Hazard Ratio.
- Relative Risk (RR).
- Odds Ratio (OR).
- Attributable Risk (AR).
- Population Attributable Risk (PAR).
- Blame parents for not vaccinating their children.
- Initiate rapid contact tracing, isolation of cases, and implement emergency vaccination clinics to increase herd immunity.
- Wait for the outbreak to end naturally.
- Only treat symptomatic individuals with antibiotics.
- The findings apply to all populations.
- The findings may only be generalizable to populations with similar genetic backgrounds.
- Genetic studies are never generalizable.
- Generalizability is irrelevant.
- To minimize false negatives.
- To confirm a diagnosis (reducing false positives).
- To maximize true positives.
- To identify all possible cases.
- Randomized controlled trials.
- Case reports and case series (from pharmacovigilance).
- Pre-clinical animal studies.
- Phase I trials.
- Analytical epidemiology.
- Descriptive epidemiology.
- Experimental epidemiology.
- Clinical epidemiology.
- Advise all asthma patients to avoid the ER.
- Investigate potential seasonal environmental triggers like pollen counts or air pollution levels.
- Assume it is due to patient non-compliance with medication.
- Only provide inhaled corticosteroids to all patients.
- Sensitivity.
- Specificity.
- Positive Predictive Value (PPV).
- Negative Predictive Value (NPV).
- Consistency.
- Temporality.
- Dose-response relationship.
- Coherence.
- Systematic review.
- Meta-analysis.
- Narrative review.
- Scoping review.
- Cross-sectional study.
- Case-control study.
- Historical cohort study.
- Single-arm trial or compassionate use program.
