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EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Effect measures Absolute Risk & Baseline Risk The same relative benefit is large in high-risk patients…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Effect measures Experimental & Control Event Rates (EER & CER) The two raw event rates that…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Diagnostics QUADAS-2 The standard tool for appraising risk of bias and applicability in diagnostic accuracy studies…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Diagnostics Diagnostic Accuracy Biases The study-design flaws that make a test look better than it really…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Diagnostics ROC Curve & AUC How well a test separates disease from no-disease across every possible…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Diagnostics Pre- and Post-test Probability & Odds The chance of disease before a test, updated by…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Diagnostics PPV & NPV Given a test result, how likely is disease? — the bedside question,…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Measurement Reliability & Reproducibility Whether a measurement gives the same answer on repeat — consistency, not…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Measurement Kappa Statistic (κ) Agreement between two raters, after stripping out the agreement you would expect…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Bias & validity Internal vs External Validity Is the result TRUE in the study (internal) —…
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