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| What is an observational study? |
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| Attempts to assess the relationship between the exposure and disease by observing this association as it occurs naturally in the studied population. |
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| Name 3 kinds of observational studies? |
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1. Cross Sectional
2. Case Control
3. Cohort |
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| looks at both the exposure of interest and the disease outcome at the same point in time. |
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| identifies subjects based upon the disease present |
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| identifies subjects according to whether they have certain exposure of interest and then they are followed over time to see if there is an association between the exposure and the development of one or more of the diseases. |
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| HIPPA serves for the following purposes: |
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1. It allows employees to move their health insurance when changing jobs
2. It ensures privacy of protected health information
3. It develops standards for health information
4. It reduces healthcare fraud and abuse |
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| Which indices would most likely be used to assess periodontal disease in populations of people? |
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| an iireversible index used to determine total dental caries experience, past and present. It is used only on permenant teeth |
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| Which index is used for primary dentition? |
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| DEFT- decayed, extracted, filled teeth |
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| How is the DMFS different from the DMFS? |
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| DMFS records tooth surfaces involved instead of teeth |
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| reversible index used to assess the severity of gingivitis based on color, consistency, and BOP |
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| Plaque index of Silness and Loe |
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| reversible index used to assess the thickness of plaque at the gingival margin. adapted from PMA index. Scores of 0-3 are given, 3 is heavy accumulation of plaque |
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| Specificity vs Sensitivity in public health |
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| Specificity measures the proportion of those without disease who are correctly identified by a negative test. Sensitivity is defined as the number of true positives divided by the number of potential positive findings in the sample |
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| Sens and Specifi are inversely proportional, as specificity increases, sensitivity decreases. |
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| it deals with unfair conduct against a person |
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| it protects the client and the health care provider against any breach of contract signed by both parties. |
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| Intentional Tort Law Includes: |
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| Assault, battery, defemation, invasion of privacy, fraud, infliction of mental distress, wrongful discharge, interference with advantageous relations |
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| Unintentional tort law includes: |
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| Negligence and malpractice |
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| Both the client and the health care provider are bound by their contractual responsibilities |
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| Failure to provide the care which a reasonably careful individual would have provided under similar circumstances. SAME AS CARELESSNESS OR INATTENTIVENESS |
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| type of negligence in which professional fails to perform his duty in accordance with the medical standards or is unable to forsee the outcome of his actions even though another professional of his skills could forsee the consequences. |
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| threatening or attempting to cause bodily harm |
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| a deliberate act of causing bodily harm. |
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| Examination is equal to what in community public health? |
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| Treatment planning is what in PH? |
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| Program operation or implementation |
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| Evaluation or program appraisal |
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| Characteristics of whole populations are called |
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| Characteristics of the samples are called |
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| statistics. By using statistics we attempt to infer what the parameters will be |
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| takes random sampling and breaks it down further. Researcher divides people into groups called strata, then probability sample is done |
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| not true random sampling- usually done by chosing every nth person |
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| Sampling that causes bias are |
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| judgment sample and convenience sample |
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| degree of agreement of among repeated administrations of a diagnostic test between a single examiner |
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| Involves two or more examiners viewing subjects in the same conditions the same way over time. |
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| a measure of the average deviation or spread of scores around the mean. The variance, as is the standard deviation, is based on the score in the distribution. |
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| a measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean; more spread-apart data has a higher deviation. Standard deviation is calculated as the square root of variance |
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| is the measurement of the quality of care and the implementation of any necessary changes to either maintain or improve the quality of care rendered. |
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| limited to the appraisal of whether or not the standards of quality have been met |
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| 7 Steps in Educational Process |
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1. Recognizing needs
2. Expressing needs
3. Stimulating Motivation
4. Setting Goals
5. Acting to achieve goals
6. Reinforcing learning
7. Evaluating Results |
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| designed to predict a persons health behavior, including the use of health services |
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1. The persons own perception of susceptibility to a disease or condition
2. The likelihood of contracting that disease or condition
3. The persons perception of the severity of the consequnces of contracting disease
4. perceived benefits of care
5. the internal or external stimuli that result in appropriate health behavior . |
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