CAPS I Exam question with answers

CAPS I Exam question with answers
EBCP steps - -ask
acquire
appraise
apply

-Foreground questions - -intervention
diagnosis
prognosis
etiology/risk

-cross-sectional study - -- one point in time
- prevalence

-case-control study - -- identify cases/controls then look back at possible exposures
- always retrospective
- odds ratio

-cohort study - -- identify groups with exposure then look at outcomes
- prospective or retrospective
- relative risk

-ordinal - -natural order (low, mod, high)

-nominal - -names, no order (NYC, DC, London)

-dichotomous - -2 categories (yes/no, +/-)

-PICO - -pt and problem
intervention
comparison
outcome

-ptsd - -pt
test
standard test
disease

-pfo - -pt
factors
outcome

-acute diseases - -prevalence ~ incidence

-chronic disease - -prevalence > incidence

-analyze categorical data - -chi sqaured
fisher's exact test (small sample size)