- Treat the patient with antiviral medication.
- Immediately notify public health authorities for investigation and contact tracing.
- Advise the patient to avoid that restaurant in the future.
- Wait for more patients to report similar symptoms.
No category found.
- Sensitivity.
- Specificity.
- Positive Predictive Value (PPV).
- Negative Predictive Value (NPV).
- Consistency.
- Strength.
- Temporality.
- Plausibility.
- Matching.
- Stratification.
- Randomization.
- Blinding.
- Incidence.
- Point Prevalence.
- Cumulative Incidence.
- Mortality Rate.
- Issue a warning to the restaurant management.
- Immediately shut down the restaurant, seize contaminated food, and initiate a thorough decontamination process.
- Wait for the restaurant to improve conditions voluntarily.
- Only advise customers to avoid the restaurant.
- PPV will be very high.
- PPV will be very low, leading to many false positives.
- PPV will be unchanged.
- PPV becomes irrelevant.
- Anecdotal evidence.
- Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in humans.
- Qualitative research.
- Animal studies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
