Epidemiology — Flashcards

The Mortality Rate = (_____) / (total population time at risk during T0->T1)

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

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

_____ studies are useful for measuring odds ratio (OR)

Procedure bias is an error introduced in _____ that results from different groups being treated differently

Procedure bias can be reduced by _____ and minimizing differences in groups (besides variable of intervention)

Selection bias is an error introduced in _____ that occurs due to a nonrandom sampling or treatment allocation of subjects

Inflammatory bowel disease is more prevalent in the West, particularly in _____ and Eastern European Jews

The _____ rate of a test is equal to 1 - sensitivity

_____ predictive value varies directly with pretest probability / prevalence