- Wait for the pathogen to be fully characterized.
- Initiate rapid risk assessment, develop containment strategies, and prepare for potential outbreak/pandemic.
- Dismiss it as a non-issue.
- Only focus on research.
Category: Epidemoilogy
- Specificity.
- Coherence.
- Consistency.
- Analogy.
- Virulence.
- Pathogenicity.
- Infectivity.
- Herd immunity.
- Relative Risk.
- Odds Ratio.
- Vaccine Efficacy (or Vaccine Effectiveness in real-world).
- Attributable Risk.
- Immediately close the operating rooms indefinitely.
- Initiate an infection control investigation, implement enhanced hygiene protocols, and identify common exposures among affected patients.
- Inform only the patients who developed infections.
- Blame individual surgeons for poor technique.
- Disease prevalence in the population.
- Test sensitivity.
- Test specificity.
- Randomization.
- The study was too small.
- The temporal sequence between lack of sleep and poor performance cannot be established.
- Students were not randomized.
- The study was too expensive.
- Advise people to avoid all restaurants.
- Issue an immediate public health warning about the specific restaurant and advise affected individuals to seek medical care.
- Wait for the restaurant to voluntarily close.
- Only investigate individual cases.
- Crude death rate.
- Specific mortality rate.
- Case-fatality rate.
- Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL).
- Incidence rate.
- Prevalence.
- Case-fatality rate.
- Survival analysis.
- Pre-clinical studies.
- Phase I trials.
- Post-marketing surveillance (Pharmacovigilance).
- Regulatory approval.
- Cohort study.
- Cross-sectional study.
- Case-control study.
- Randomized controlled trial.
- Relative Risk (RR).
- Odds Ratio (OR).
- Attributable Risk (AR).
- Population Attributable Risk (PAR).
- Send in medical supplies for symptomatic treatment.
- Dispatch a rapid response team to conduct a shoe-leather epidemiology investigation to characterize cases, identify exposures, and collect samples.
- Restrict movement into and out of the village without further investigation.
- Wait for the cluster to resolve on its own.
- Prevalence.
- Incidence.
- Attributable Risk.
- Relative Risk.
- Recall bias.
- Observer bias.
- Confounding.
- Selection bias.
- Sensitivity.
- Specificity.
- Positive Predictive Value.
- Negative Predictive Value.
