Case Report - Answers What is an article that describes the clinical course of a single patient without
using sequential assessments?
Retrospective - Answers What is the perspective that the majority of case reports tend to be in nature.
Case report - Answers What doesn't usually present " the usual management of a condition"?
Presenting a unique case, presenting a case with an unexpected association between 2 conditions,
presenting a case with an unexpected development in a condition - Answers What are 3 reasons for
writing a case report?
Care is delivered in a controlled environment. - Answers What is not a limitation of a case report?
Natural progression, care is delivered in an uncontrolled environment, patient may have had an atypical
response to treatment, improvement may be due to placebo effect. - Answers What are limitations of
case reports?
Abstract, Intro, Case dossnet, Discussion, Reference - Answers What is the correct order for the
components of a case report?
False - Answers True or False: The information in a case report will always require approval from an
intuitional review board.
Regression to the mean - Answers What is an extremely high pain score used to monitor the progression
of a case report that moves toward less extreme scores over time?
ABA - Answers What is the best design for a single subject time series design for a single patient?
Trend - Answers What is measured with the change in direction of a graph used for a single subject time
series design?
Chronic - Answers What is the best type of condition to study using a single subject time series design?
Ethical problem for conducting a single subject time series - Answers What is the following? There is a
period of time when an intervention cannot be offered to the patient or patients, and they have the
right to with draw anytime.
Prevalence - Answers What is the proportion of people in a given population that have a disease at a
certain point in time?
Incidence - Answers What is the probability of a person being diagnosed with a disease during a specific
period of time?
Short term diseases - Answers When is the prevalence lower than the incidence?
Reliability - Answers What is not one of Bradford Hill's criteria of causation?
, Consistency, Dose response, and Temporality - Answers What are three of Bradford Hill's criteria of
causation?
Cross Sectional - Answers What kind of study is used to assess the health status and exposure levels of
persons in a population at one point in time?
Case Control - Answers What type of study is retrospective in nature?
Increased risk of disease - Answers What is an odds ratio greater than 1 with regards to exposure?
Case Control - Answers What type of study is best used for studying rare diseases?
Cohort - Answers What type of study is best able to establish temporal precedence of an exposure in
relation to a health outcome?
Relative Risk - Answers What is the probability of disease in the exposed group divided by the
probability of disease in the unexposed group?
Positive Association - Answers A relative risk of 2.7 would indicate that there is a ___________ between
the risk factor and the disease in question.
1 - Answers What is the best possible number needed to treat?
Berkson's Bias - Answers What occurs because in a hospital setting and controls are systematically
different form one another because hospital admissions generally have a higher rate of exposure and
disease incidence.
Validity - Answers What is the degree to which a test measures what it was intended to measure?
Systemic error - Answers What has a potentially more significant effect on group mean score for a test?
1 - Answers What would be a perfect reliability coefficient?
Good agreement - Answers What does a good correlation between examiners always indicate?
Cronbach's alpha - Answers What are the statistical tests used to measure internal consistency reliability
of a test?
Kappa Statistics - Answers What measures the agreement between examiners that occurs beyond
chance levels?
Less Confident - Answers If you read a research study that showed that the kappa for a particular test
you have been using was measured as 0.15, would you feel more or less confident that the test was a
reliable one?
Face Validity - Answers What is your judgment as to whether the test seems to have merit on its own.