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PP
Regression coefficient
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- PREDICTS
- DESCRIBES
- ADJUSTS
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Risk
- Relative risk: e.g. exposed relative to unexposed
- Absolute risk: Probability of an event occuring
Defintions
QALY
- Expected years of life left + quality of that time
- Derived from mortality, morbidity and quality of life value
DALY
- Measure burden of disease
- Chronic disease
- Alternate QALY
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Case control
- Exposure to risk factor
- people with disease v people without
(cases v controls)
- Association, no causation
- Odds ratio + recall and selection bias
Cohort study
- Longitudinal prospective study
- Starts before disease onset
- 2 groups: exposed and not exposed to risk factor
- Incidence of disease is monitored
- Relative risk
- Expensive and time consuming
- Observer bias
RCTs
- One intervention group, one control
- Parts randomised to one of two groups
- Removes bias, expensive