- 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.
No category found.
- Reverse causation.
- Information bias.
- Confounding.
- Selection bias.
- Attributable Risk.
- Absolute Risk.
- Relative Risk.
- Cumulative Incidence.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cohort study.
- Cross-sectional study.
- Case-control study.
- Randomized controlled trial.
- Selection bias.
- Recall bias (a type of information bias).
- Observer bias.
- Confounding.
- Incidence.
- Prevalence.
- Basic Reproductive Number (R0?).
- Attack rate.
- Advise parents to keep children home for a week.
- Notify public health authorities immediately, facilitate stool sample collection, and reinforce hand hygiene protocols.
- Only treat the children who are severely ill.
- Blame the daycare for poor sanitation without investigation.
- Many false negative results.
- Many false positive results, leading to unnecessary anxiety and follow-up tests.
- Accurate diagnosis immediately.
- No need for further testing.
- Recall bias.
- Information bias.
- Confounding.
- Selection bias.
- Pre-clinical studies.
- Phase I trials.
- Phase II trials.
- Pharmacovigilance.
- Reservoir.
- Portal of entry.
- Mode of transmission.
- Portal of exit.
