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What is prevalence?

What is it affected by?

What is point prevalence?

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Number of current cases at a given moment.

Increased by prolonging lives of sufferers.
Decreased by cures and deaths.

No of sufferers/No at risk

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What is the crude death rate?

What is the age-specific death rate?

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No of deaths per 1000 population

No of deaths per 1000 in an age group

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What are the four disadvantages of case controlled studies?

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  • Only estimates relative risk
  • No absolute incidence rates
  • Often prone to recall and selection bias
  • Can’t be sure exposure preceeds outcome
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What is the incidence?

How do you calculate the incidence rate?

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No. of new cases in a given time

Rate=number of new cases/person-years
Person-years=Number of people observed x Number of years observed

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What three things can apparent associations results from?

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-Chance
-Bias:
Selction, Information
-Confounders

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What are Confidence Intervals?

How do you calculate them?

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Values you can be 95% sure the true value lies between.

  • Upper = Observed x error factor
  • Lower = Observed/error factor
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What are the 6 uses of mortality data?

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  • Identifies cause of death to analyse patterns
  • Identifies health problems to inform services
  • Uses as incidence date for rapid diseases
  • Errors from omissions
  • Incorrect diagnoses
  • ‘Fashions’ in diagnosis
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State and define the fertility determinants

What is fertility increased and decreased by?

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Fecundity - Physical ability to reproduces
Fertility - Realisation of fecundity
Conceptions - Liver births + miscarriages + abortions

Increased by sexual activity + economic climate
Decreased by contraception and abortions

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What is publication bias?

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Studies with significant/favourable results are more likely to be published

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What are the disadvantages of using historical controls? (3)

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  • May have been treated differently
  • Less information about controls makes confounder adjusment difficult
  • Comparison with patients can overestimate the benefits of a new treatment
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What are population estimates?

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Applying what’s known abouts births, deaths and migrations to the present population

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What are the characteristics of the ideal outcome? (12, but divide into 6 groups of two)

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Appropriate: to patient, clinician, society
Valid: reasonably linked to treatments compared
Specific
Reliable: different people in different settings with same results
Simple and sustainable: repeatable
Cheap and timely: not expensive or long

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What are the four advantages of case-controlled?

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  • Study rare diseases
  • Study range of exposures
  • Cheap
  • Quick
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What is the paradox of the commons, you sexy beast?

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The principal that the optimum stratagey from an individual is not the optimum strategy for the community?

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Why are there losses to follow up in studies?

How can they be minimised? (four)

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Clinical condition may necessitate removal or may choose to leave

  • Make follow up practical and convenient
  • Make clear commitment involved at start of study
  • Avoid coercion
  • Maintain contact
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What are the three types of data?

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Binary exposure
Several categories
Continuous

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What is a case controlled study?

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Classify on the basis of disease and the compare exposure status

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What three factors contribute to population size?

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Births, deaths and migration

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What are the three types of blinding?

What are its benefits?

What are its difficulties?

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Single, double and triple

Avoids bias

Surgery, lifestyle interventions

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What are observed quantities?

What is random variation?

What is affected by random variation to produce observed quantities?

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Values that depart from their true value via random variation e.g. incidence, prevalence

Fluctuations in disease patterns that can’t be explained by systematic causes

True underlying tendencies

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What is systematic variation?

How can it be used?

What is the problem with it?

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Risk varies systematically throughout population

Can give clues as to cause of disesae

Can confound relationships between 2 variables

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What are the seven disadvantages to cohort studies?

Really Tired Elephants Share Ears with Randy Creeps

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Resource intensive
Time consuming
Expensive 
Risk of high number of loss --> Survivor bias
Ethical dilemmas
Can't study rare diseases
Difficulty with confounding variable
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What is the problem with incidence and prevalence?

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They assume that all members of a population run the same rish, which they don’t

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Why use random allocation when designing studies?

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Minimise selection biase and confounders

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What is a confounder? How do you minimise them?
Affects both exposure and outcome, but does not lie on causal pathway Matching using important confounders e.g. Age, Sex and ethnicity
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What is the primary outcome? What is the secondary outcome?
Sample size Side effects
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What is selection bias? How do you minimise it?
Specifically selecting cases and controls so more likely to achieve desired result Cases representative of cases Controls representative of population
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What are the ethical issues behind placebos? (3)
- Deception - Should only be used when no standard treatment available for comparison - Patients should be fully informed that they may receive a placebo
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What is the placebo effect?
Compariosn of treatment to non-treatment | -Measure of the attitude change to the illness itself by the pure thought it being treated
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What are population projections?
Applying future estimates of births, deaths and migrations to future population estimations.
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What is causality?
Epidemiological addumption that no disease occurs at random and has preventable and causal factors
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Who writes the death certificate? What is in the death certificate? When must it be written?
Attending doctor Cause of death Within five days of death
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What are the 6 advantages of cohort studies?
Rigorously defined disease + exposure Study ran of outcomes Study rare exposures Establish exposure preceeds outcome Good for conditions that fluctuate with age Prospective - detailed assement of exposure outcomes, personal characteristics and confounders.
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What is a hypothesis? What is the null hypothesis?
A statement that an underlying tendency of scientific interest takes a particular value States that there is no statistically significant different between 2 populations
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What is the meaning of : - Necessary - Sufficient
Necessary - Exposure must always preceed disease Sufficient - Exposures capable of causing disease on its own
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What is the total period fertility rate? How is it calculated?
Average no of babies born to hypothetical worman between 15-44 Sum of age specific fertility rates
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What are the five advantages of clinical trials?
- Provide reliable evidence of treatment efficacu and safety - Fair - Controlled - Reproducible - Intervention studies
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What is the standardised mortality ratio? How do you calculate it?
Compares the observed deaths in a population with the expected deaths of that age group, assuming the age-sex distributions are identical No of observed deaths/No of expected deaths
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What are clinical trials?
Planned experiments involving patients which elucidates the most appropriate method of treatment for future patients with a given medical condition
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What is association?
Statistical dependance between 2 or more events, characteristics or other variables
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How many controls in case controlled study and why?
Increase in cases means increase in controls Required to reduce error factor Beyond 5 controls to cases, the decrease in error factor is disproportionate to the increase in costs of controls?
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What is internal comparison? What observed value is calculated?
Between 2 groups within the cohort Incidence rate ratio
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What is the point of clinical appraisal?
Distingus between good and bad evidence to provide optimal care for patiens
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What is the criteria for inferring causality? (9)
Strength of association Specificity of association Consitency of association Coherence of theory Analogy Biological plausability Reversibility Temporal sequence Dose response
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What is the incidence rate ratio? How is it calculated? What do its results indicate?
Comparison of incidence rates between 2 groups, varying in exposure Rate A/Rate B >1 suggests increase risk in group A <1 suggests increase in risk in group B
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What is the crude birth rate? What is the general fertility rate?
No of babies born per 1000 population (live births) Number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-44
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Why do we need a population perspective of medicine?
Look at large groups of people to discover causes of disease and evaluate preventative/curative measures
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What is external comparison? What is the observed value calculated? What are its limitations? (2)
Compare incidence within cohort with reference population SMR - Limited data for reference population - Reference and study pops may not be comparable due to selection bias and healthy worker bias
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How do you calculate odds ratio?
----------------Cases----Controls Exposed-----A-------------B---- Unexposed--C------------D AxD/BxC = Odds of being exposed (cases)/odds of being exposed (controls)
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What are the problems with hospital acquired infections? (3) How can HAIs be prevented? (3)
Increase costs Increase hospital stay Cause deaths Hand washing Restrict anti-biotic useage Cohort colonised and non colonised staff and patients together
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How do you interpret a 95% C.I?
Does the value of the null hypothesis lie between the CIs? - Yes - Pt accept hypothesis
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Why is there variable study quality? (4) How do you deal with this? (3)
Poor study design Design protocol Protocol implementation Prone to bias + confounders Define basic quality standard Score each study Incorporate into weighting
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What is a cohort study? What are the types?
Classify patients based on exposure and then follow up to look for outcome - Prospective - Exposure status and follow up - Retrospective - Exposure status and follow up based on historical records
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What are the 5 contentious issues associated with health care information use?
``` Completeness/duplication Accuracy Confidentiality Numerator/Denominator mismatch Varying diagnosis of disease ```
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What is age sex standardisation? Why use it?
A procedure that adjusts for age-sex differences in population structure, to provide a single summary measure Age and sex are both factors that can confound disease risk
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What is health information used for? (3)
Identify health and healthcare needs Monitor trends in disease Monitor peformance in healthcare
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What is a cencus? What information about the population does it produce?
Simultaneous recording of data by the government at a particular time, pertaining to all persons living in a particular territory Population size and structure
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(S9 +) What are meta analyses? What observed value is calculated?
Quantitive synthesis of the results of 2 or more primary studies, that addressed the same hypothsis in the smae way Pooled estimate odds ratio
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(S9 +) | What are forest plots?
``` Squares = Individual ORs = Size x Weight Lines = 95% CIs Diamond = Pooled estimate Centre = Pooled OR Width = Pooled CI Solid line = Null hypothesis RCTs with OR>1 = greater survival odds ```
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(S9 +) | Why are systematic reviews so credible? (5)
``` Unbiased Objective Explicit Transparent Reproducible ```
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(S9 +) | What is intention to treat analysis?
Everyone is included | More representative of population
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(S9 +) | What are systematic reviews?
Overview of primary studies, which the synthesis can include meta-analyses
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Why are outcomes predefined? (S9 +)
``` Prevents data dredging Prevents repeat analyses Sets data collection protocol Provides agreed criteria for measurement Assesment of outcomes ```
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What is as-treated analysis? (S9 +) What is its problem?
Non-compliers excluded - 2 groups no longer random - Lost immunity to confounders
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What 2 methods are used for calculating pooled estimate OR? (S9 +)
Fixed-effect model: Studies estimate the same effect size Random effect model: Studies estimate similar effect size
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What is a nested case controlled study? (S9 +)
Collection of data from an evolving exposure and outcome database of a propective cohort study
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What is a funnel plot? (S9 +)
Measure study size against measure of effect | Balanced funnel means no bias
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What are the steps in conduction of Randomised Control Trial? (S9 +)
``` Identify Recruit Consent Maintain Allocate Assess ```
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What are the advantages of nested case-controlled over cohort and case-controlled studies? (S9 +)
Cohort: Collect more detailed inmfromation for a minority of participants Case-controlled: - Incidence rates can be defined - Population for sampling of controls is already defined
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``` Define: (S9 +) Collective ethic - 1 Individual ethic - 2 Clinical equipoise -3 Valid consent -4 ```
1- All individuals have the right to safe and efficient treatment 2-RCTs go against beneficence, malfeansance, autonomy and justice 3-Genuine ingnorance of no better treatment 4-From a knowledgeable informant with appropriate information
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What is information bias?
Bias as a result of misclassification of exposure of outcomes. Can be differential or non-differential.
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Information bias definition
Error due to systematic differences in the measurement or classification of subjects in the groups being studied
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