Disease Detectives B/C
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For what study types would you use relative risk, odds ratio, and prevalence odds ratio/prevalence ratio?
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Re: Disease Detectives B/C
dragons790 wrote:For what study types would you use relative risk, odds ratio, and prevalence odds ratio/prevalence ratio?
Odds ratios are most commonly used in case-control studies, however they can also be used in cross-sectional and cohort study designs as well.
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Yep! Do you know about relative risk and prevalence odds ratio/prevalence ratio too?
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RR is used for Cohort Studies, Prevalence is used for Cross-sectional studies
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Sample Question: Outbreak in Manhattan, blablablabla, CDC investigating using surveillance, blablablablabla.
a) What does CDC stand for?
b) Define surveillance.
a) What does CDC stand for?
b) Define surveillance.
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1. The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention 2. The systematic ongoing collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of health data.
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All right ! What is the difference between an endemic and a hyperendemic?
! What is the difference between an endemic and a hyperendemic?60% of the time it works every time.
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Endemic: disease occurs constantly in a specific area Hyperendemic: disease occurs at a constant high incidence and prevalence in a specific area
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