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1
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[Study design type]

used for rare disease

A

case-control

2
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[Study design type]

has a stronger evidence for causality

A

cohort

3
Q

[Study design type]

prone to selection bias

A

cross-sectional

4
Q

[Study design type]

compare proportion of cases with exposure (risk factor) with proportion of controls

A

case-control

5
Q

[Study design type]

compare proportion of disease group with risk factor with proportion of non-diseased group with risk factor

A

cross sectional

6
Q

[Disability]

loss or abnormality of psychological or anatomical structure or function

A

impairment

7
Q

[Disability]

any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being

A

disability

refers to the function of the individual

8
Q

[Disability]

disadvantage for a given individual resulting from an impairment or disability

A

handicap

9
Q

[Epidemiological
approach]

concerned with disease distribution and frequency

A

descriptive epidemiology

10
Q

[Epidemiological approach]

analyzes the causes or determinants of disease by testing hypothesis

A

analytical epidemiology

11
Q

[Epidemiological approach]

effectiveness of new methods for conrolling diseases

A

intervention or experimental

12
Q

[Epidemiological approach]

measure the effectiveness of different health services and program

A

evaluation epidemiology

13
Q

What is the alternate name of correlational study

A

ecological

14
Q

what is the alternate name for cross sectional study?

A

prevalence study

15
Q

What is the alternate name for case control study?

A

case reference

16
Q

What is the inferential statistics used for case control studies

A

odds ratio

17
Q

What is the inferential statistics used for cohort studies?

A

relative risk

18
Q

Study design that answers

“what is happening”

A

Cross sectional

19
Q

Study design that answers

“what happened?”

A

case control

20
Q

Study design that answers

“who will develop the disease

A

cohort

21
Q

What is the gold standard or reference in medicine (type of study design)

A

RCT