Epidemiology — Flashcards

Subtype _____ of HIV is commonly transmitted through homosexual contact and injections

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

_____ 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

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.

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

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

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

_____ studies are useful for measuring odds ratio (OR)