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EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Bias & validity Effect Modification & Interaction When a treatment genuinely works differently across subgroups —…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Bias & validity Confounding A third variable, linked to both the exposure and the outcome, that…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Bias & validity Publication Bias & Small-Study Effects Positive trials get published and small trials over-estimate…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Bias & validity Risk of Bias Domains The systematic ways an RCT result can be distorted…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Bias & validity Chance vs Bias vs Confounding The three alternative explanations you must exclude before…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Trial methods Blinding (Masking) Keeping participants, clinicians, outcome assessors and/or analysts unaware of allocation, to stop…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Trial methods Allocation Concealment Hiding the UPCOMING allocation from whoever enrols and assigns patients, so they…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Trial methods Sampling Methods How participants are SELECTED from the target population — this drives who…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Trial methods Randomisation Methods How the allocation sequence is generated — and why this is distinct…
EM FINAL EXAMS Critical Appraisal · Evidence synthesis GRADE & Certainty of Evidence A structured system that rates how much we can…
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