Pubh 6035 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1. Question: The main purpose of screening is to identify symptomatic disease using tests, exams, or other procedures 2. Question: The detectable preclinical phase of a disease starts when the disease can be identified by a screening test and ends when the disease produces symptoms 3. Question: Diseasesthatareappropriateforscreening… 4. Question: Usethefollowinginformationtoanswerquestions4-8.Supposethat50,000womenwhohaveneverhadabreastcancerdiagnosisareavailableandwillingtoparticipateinane...

1. Question: If the incidence rate of a very serious disease is 25/100,000 person-years and the prevalence of this disease in the population is 75/100,000, what is the average survival time of individuals who contract this disease? 2. Question: A report of a clinical trial of a new drug versus a placebo noted that the new drug gave a higher proportion of successes than did the placebo (70% versus 40%). The report ended with the statement that the p value associated with this finding was equal t...

Usingtheinformationprovidedinthecasestudy,completeSectionsB,C,andD(pp.5–10),typingyouranswersintoaseparatedocument. SectionB:CalculatingMeasuresofAssociation Over 25 studies have been conducted which have failed to show an associationbetweenMMRvaccineandautism.Belowaresomedatafromtwoofthesestudies(onecohortandonecase-control). Calculatethemeasureofassociationforeachstudyaftercompletingthe2x2tableandinterpretthemeasureof association. 1. CohortstudybyMadsenetal(NEJM2002) Ofthe537,30...

1. A study that compares the prevalence of high blood pressure among current Massachusetts Turnpike toll booth collectors with the current prevalence of high blood pressure of current Turnpike office workers. What type of study is this? 2. A strength of BOTH cross-sectional and an ecological studies is: 3. The Health Professionals Cohort Study began in 2005 in order to evaluate a series of hypotheses about men’s health relating nutritional factors to the incidence of serious illnesses su...

A cohort study of liver cancer among alcoholics. Incidence rates of liver canceramong alcoholic men are compared to a group of non-alcoholic men. Is gender a confounder inthisstudy? • Acase-control study of theriskofbeerconsumptionandoralcanceramongmen.Inthis study,cigarettesmokingisassociatedwithbeerconsumptionandisariskfactorfororal cancer among Both beer drinkers and nondrinkers.Iscigarettesmokinga confounderin this study?

Assignment2:ProblemSet:MeasuresofDiseaseFrequencyQUESTION1 Consider a group of 1,000 newborn infants. 100 infants were born with seriousbirth defects and 20 of these 100 died during the first year of life. 90 of the 900remaininginfantswithoutanybirthdefectsalsodied duringthefirst yearoflife. A) Calculate the prevalence of serious defects in this population at the time ofbirth. •=100/1000=0.1/1,000livebirthsor10%ofthepopulationhad seriousbirthdefects B) Calculatetheoverallcumulativeincide...

1. What are the potential risks and benefits to be considered when designing this study? 2. When the side effects and long-term effects of a potential preventive measure are largely unknown, is it ethical to expose participants to these risks? Why or why not? 3. Is it ethical to deny the possible prevention benefits of high-fiber supplements to persons in the placebo group? Why or why not? 4. Do the potential benefits outweigh the potential risks to the participants and to society? Why or why...

1. A cohort study of smoking and bladder cancer was conducted in a small islandpopulation. There were a total of 1000 people on the island. Four hundred weresmokersand600werenot.Fiftyofthesmokersdevelopedbladdercancer.Tenofthenon-smokersdevelopedbladdercancer. • Constructatwobytwotableusingthedatagivenabove.Besuretolabelthecells andmargins. • Whichmeasureofcomparisonwouldyouusetodescribetherelativeeffectofsmoking ontheriskofbladder cancer?. • Whatistheformulaforthismeasureofcomparis...

1. Question: If the incidence rate of a very serious disease is 25/100,000 person-years and the prevalence of this disease in the population is 75/100,000, what is the average survival time of individuals who contract this disease? 2. Question: A report of a clinical trial of a new drug versus a placebo noted that the new drug gave a higher proportion of successes than did the placebo (70% versus 40%). The report ended with the statement that the p value associated with this finding was equal t...

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