EPID 301 Final: EPID 301 Keys

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Community Health and Epidemiology
• Course: EPID 301
• Professor: Duncan Hunter

Document Summary

Internal validity: extent at which the results of the study reflect the true situation in a study sample, consider cbc. External validity: aka generalizability, how representative the study pop is to the target pop. Cause: event, condition or characteristic that plays an essential role in prod of disease. Chance: sufficient cause: factor or combo of factors that prod disease, component cause: factor that contributes to disease causation but not sufficient to cause disease on its own, necessary cause: any agent req for disease development. Systematic review: systematic collection, analysis and summarizing data to answer a research q: use: make evidence-based decisions in clinical meds + public health, follows research paper structure, large team w librarian, biostatician, ect takes 1-2 yrs. Identifies all primary research studies that address research q abstracting data in standard format critically appraising the summarized findings in meta-analysis: use casp or oxford centre for evidence-based medicine (cebm)