SPMM Study design

Question 1

Follow up prospectively with exposure at outset

Answer 1

cohort study

Question 2

what does a cross sectional study tell you?

Answer 2

incidence/prevalence
nature of sampled population

Question 3

What does case-control tell you?

Answer 3

what CAUSES the outcome/risk factor you want to know

Question 4

What does cohort tell you?

Answer 4

what are the EFFECTS of the RF/exposure

Question 5

what does an interventional study tell you?

Answer 5

what is the EFFECT of the INTERVENTION specified

Question 6

Clinical enquiry: treatment effectiveness

Answer 6

pragmatic RCT

Question 7

Clinical enquiry: treatment efficacy

Answer 7

experimental RCT

Question 8

Clinical enquiry: causation/aetiology

Answer 8

case-control or cohort

Question 9

Clinical enquiry: prognosis

Answer 9

cohort

Question 10

Clinical enquiry: diagnostic assessment/evaluating new tool

Answer 10

cross sectional comparison to gold standard

Question 11

Clinical enquiry: health economics

Answer 11

cost-effectiveness study

Question 12

Clinical enquiry: meaning or health experience

Answer 12

qualitative study

Question 13

how do cohort studies that are retrospectively vs prospectively applied differ?

Answer 13

only in time set that data is from ie sample sizes are not necessarily different

Question 14

what is more expensive case control or cohort?

Answer 14

Cohort