- Specificity.
- Positive Predictive Value.
- Sensitivity.
- Negative Predictive Value.
Category: Epidemoilogy
- Association proves causation.
- The possibility of confounding or reverse causation, requiring careful interpretation and further research.
- Coffee consumption must be immediately banned.
- The finding is definitive and requires no further study.
- Pre-clinical testing.
- Phase I clinical trials.
- Pharmacovigilance.
- Drug development.
- Cohort study.
- Cross-sectional study.
- Case-control study.
- Randomized controlled trial.
- Start treating all attendees with antibiotics.
- Interview affected individuals to identify common exposures, particularly food items.
- Close down all restaurants in the city.
- Issue a general warning about food safety.
- Individual patient isolation is sufficient.
- The concept of herd immunity and vaccination strategies.
- That the disease will naturally burn out.
- Only treating severe cases will halt spread.
- To establish the safety of the drug in a small group.
- To assess the drug's efficacy and safety against a placebo or standard treatment in a large, diverse patient population.
- To determine the drug's mechanism of action.
- To compare the drug to an alternative therapy already on the market.
- The air filter doubles the risk of lung cancer.
- The air filter halves the risk of lung cancer.
- The air filter has no effect on lung cancer risk.
- The air filter increases the risk of lung cancer by 50%.
- Wait for more data to accumulate.
- Initiate an immediate outbreak investigation to identify the source and mode of transmission.
- Recommend personal protective equipment for all residents.
- Focus on individual patient treatment.
