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What is prognosis?
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1. the expected course of a disease
2. the patients chance of recovery (remission, improvement and etc) |
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What is the hierarchy of research designs that give the best information?
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1. Randomized controlled clinical trials/classical experiments
2. cohort studies 3. case-control studies 4. population-based descriptive studies 5. case report/case series |
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Name measures of prognosis.
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- Case-fatality rate (proportion of cases who die); likelihood of death
- 5-year survival rate - Observed survival [survival curves; life table analysis; Kaplan-Meier survival curves] - Median survival time - Relative survival rate [Log-rank tests; Cox Proportional Hazards analysis] |
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What are joint probabilities?
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the probability that 2 or more events will occur simultaneously
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