Types and Classification of Studies | Clinical Terminology | Clinical Trial Terminology 2 | Statistical Significance | Clinical Relevance |
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What is Experimental?
type of study is a Randomized Controlled Trial Experimental
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What is Primary, Co-Primary, Secondary?
three types of Endpoints Primary, Co-Primary, Secondary
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What are Treatment and Control?
two types of Arms in a Clinical Trial
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What is a P Value?
< 0.05 indicates that a study's findings are statistically significant.
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What is 95% Confidence Interval (CI)?
A range of values within which we can be 95% sure that the true value for the whole population lies
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What is Randomized Controlled Trial?
considered the gold standard of experimental studies
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What is Sample size?
Term for the number of participants needed for the study to lead to statistically meaningful results
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What is a Crossover study?
>2 experimental therapies given one after another to the same group of patients
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What is P value of 0.05?
Indicates that you have a 95-percent probability of seeing the same results if the study were repeated
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What is Risk ratio?
another term for Relative risk
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What is a Meta Analysis?
Takes the results of already conducted studies and statistically combines the multiple results into a summary result
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What is Power?
Term for the statistical ability for a study to demonstrate superiority when the test therapy truly is superior
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What is Double dummy design?
When it’s not possible to blind patients or researchers because of noticeable differences in each of the treatment groups therapies
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What is a Post Hoc analysis?
A statistical test often carried out to further explore variables affecting an endpoint
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What is 95% Confidence Interval?
RRs are generally accompanied with ____
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What is Observational?
Researchers observe participants
without interfering in the process is called a __________study |
What is Run-in period?
period of time, prior to randomization
in which all participants receive placebo, active treatment, or no treatment at all |
What is Weighted mean?
Calculated by giving measurements a weight based on the time interval between multiple measurements
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What is Intention to Treat (ITT)?
term for data from participants who
dropped out are included in the trial |
What is Absolute risk reduction (ARR)?
absolute difference between the rate
of events in the control group and the experimental group |
What is Cross-Sectional Studies?
study type looks at a single point of time Cross-Sectional Studies
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What is Double blinding?
Neither participants nor the researchers know to which
group each participant was randomized to |
What is Mean, Median & Mode?
1. Average of those analyzed
2. Middle value 3. Value occurring most frequently |
What is Per Protocol mean?
Keeping only the data of the participants that complied with the pre-specified protocol
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What is Number Needed to Treat (NNT)
Number of patients a doctor will need to treat in order to obtain one beneficial outcome
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