HLSC 2P27 Final: HLSC 2P27 Exam Review: make sure you review the textbook as well

• School: Brock University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HLSC 2P27
• Professor: Carolynn Pietrangeli

Document Summary

Identifying risk factors to determine the probability of developing disease: secondary, monitoring and modifying risk factors to prevent disease, tertiary, watchful surveillance to control disease or prevent recurrence, quaternary, preventing unnecessary intervention. What is the research process: begin with health-related observation, formulate study question, observation, exposure, outcome, increased risk, null hypothesis: no association between exposure and outcome. Tertiary research approaches: analyzing already-published data: meta-analysis, combination of data from multiple studies to reveal patterns in outcomes, systematic review, exhaustive summary of collective literature devoted to a single study question. Primary analysis study plan: develop a protocol, recruit study subjects, submit to ethics review, collect data. Secondary analysis study plan: select data source, submit to ethics review and procure permissions, collect data. Tertiary analysis plan: establish literature search strategy, screen literature for eligibility, compile relevant data from each publication. Equations: relative risk, rr = (cid:3276)(cid:3276)+(cid:3277)(cid:3278)(cid:3278)+(cid:3279, or = (cid:3028)(cid:3031)(cid:3029)(cid:3030, used in cohort studies, odds ratio, used in case control studies.