Epidemiology — Flashcards

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

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

Measurement Bias and Procedure Bias differ in that the former is due to a _____ procedure and the latter is due to a procedure applied in a differential manner

_____ is widely used for surveillance in Kala Azar

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

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

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

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

_____ = # of existing cases / total # of people in a population at a point in time

Recall bias is an error introduced while _____ in which the awareness of the disorder alters recall by the subjects