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| Medical or epidemiological evaluation of a person or small group of people to gather information about specific health conditions |
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| Unique case, unexpected association, unexpected development and unusual presentation |
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| Study which compares exposures of people who have a disease or condition with people who do not have the disease or conditions |
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| Patient’s exposure is known; looking back in time for disease [retrospective; looking ahead in time for disease [longitudinal perspective] |
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| Reproduction of study results in different populations |
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| Study of distribution and determinants of disease |
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| Number of new cases in population over a specific time period |
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| Statistical analysis using results of several similar studies |
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| Occurrence of a disease that alters health or quality of life |
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| Number of people who died from a particular disease |
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| Number of existing disease cases in a defined population during a specific time period |
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| A portion of a whole [a selected subset of a population] |
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| Number of units chosen from a population or environment |
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| True positive percentage; used for screen out disease-SnOUT |
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| True negative percentage; used to confirm disease-SpIN |
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| Branch of mathematics which deal with analyzing data |
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| Systemic collection of data |
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| disease or other occurrence that is constantly present in a population |
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| when only a few scattered cases occur |
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| whenever a disease occurs at a greater frequency than normal for a population or area |
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| an epidemic occurring at more than one country |
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| the first case of the disease in a given area or population |
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| Proportional number of cases occurring during a brief period affecting a specific population that was exposed to infectious agent |
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| A cluster of cases occurring during a brief period affecting a specific population |
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| acquired by patients or staff in health care facilities |
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| acquired from the health care environment such as air conditioners or bed rails |
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| derived from normal microbiota that become opportunistic while the patient is in the health care setting |
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| induced by treatments such as with antibiotics or medical procedures such as surgery |
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