Modern Epidemiological Methods — Flashcards

_____ is a method of identifying the missing cases that are not on the notified cases list.

_____ is a method of removing confounding factors by restricting the study sample to only those participants with particular characteristics

A _____ case-control study is essentially a case-control study that is present inside a cohort study.

Incidence and prevalence rates are included in _____ indicators

The main purpose of Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) is to detect early warning signals of _____.

IDR = (_____)/(sum of time periods for all disease free individuals at risk)

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

Increased prevalence results in _____ positive predictive value

Excluding skin cancer, which of the listed three demographics count the incidence of the following cancers as their top 3 most common in the United States? _____

Hint: Men, Women, or Children (age 0-14)?

Validity of a Screening Test: No answer _____