Epidemiology — Flashcards

CIR = (_____)/(# of people at risk for same time period) that gives you a measure of average risk

_____ is widely used for surveillance in Kala Azar

The CFR is a special type of _____ that measures risk of death among those individuals with the disease

Subtypes _____ of HIV are commonly transmitted through homosexual contact and injections

Assembly Bias occurs when groups of _____ assembled for prognostic study differ in ways other than prognostic factors under study

_____ index is used to identify the importance of hookworm infestation as a public health problem in a community.

Measurement bias is an error introduced while _____ where information is gathered in a systemically distorted manner

Generalizability bias is a form of _____ that is related to the selective referral of patients to tertiary medical centers

When raising the cutoff point for a disease, the _____ and PPV will increase

Migration (attrition) bias is a form of _____ that occurs when patients drop out of the study prematurely