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Informed consent: requirements, exceptions "Sign this DOC before we can start": Discussion O btain agreement Coercion-free · Exceptions to informed consent are WIPE: Waiver Incompetent Privilege (therapeutic privilege) Emergency Accuracy of test: sensitivity vs. specificity seNsitivity of a test: related to the rate of false Negatives sPecificity of a test: related to the rate of false Positives · !lternatively written: seNsitive: No Non-Negatives sPecific: Puny Psuedo-Positives Aco!o "it!dra"a effects "#$I%": #haes# #ei$ures# #weats# #tomach pains (n#v) &allucinosis (auditory) Increased vitals# Insomnia %remens (delirium tremens-the lethal part) Pi: vaue to '( decima paces "%ow & want a drin' alcoholic of course' after the heavy chapters involving uantum mechanics ne is' yes' adeuate even enough to produce some fun and pleasure for an instant' miserably brief": *he number of letters in each subseuent word of these two sentences give the value of pi to +,,./01.+.2/3/+0+2101++2+03/ !lternatively: &f only want first 1 decimal places' use the sentence "%ow & wish & could calculate 4i5 " &i criteria f or causaity
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Informed consent: requirements, exceptions"Sign this DOC before we can start": Discussion O btainagreement Coercion-free· Exceptions to informed consent are WIPE: WaiverIncompetent Privilege (therapeutic privilege) Emergency
Accuracy of test: sensitivity vs. specificityseNsitivity of a test: related to the rate of false NegativessPecificity of a test: related to the rate of false Positives· !lternatively written:seNsitive: No Non-Negatives
sPecific: Puny Psuedo-Positives
Aco!o "it!dra"a effects"#$I%":#haes# #ei$ures# #weats# #tomach pains (n#v)&allucinosis (auditory)Increased vitals# Insomnia%remens (delirium tremens-the lethal part)
Pi: vaue to '( decima paces"%ow & want a drin' alcoholic of course' after the heavychapters involving uantum mechanics ne is' yes'adeuate even enough to produce some fun and pleasurefor an instant' miserably brief": *he number of letters ineach subseuent word of these two sentences give the valueof pi to +,,./01.+.2/3/+0+2101++2+03/!lternatively: &f only want first 1 decimal places' use thesentence "%ow & wish & could calculate 4i5 "
&i criteria for causaity
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" 6Clowns Pursuing E pidemiology6 Commonly )ehind %he#illy #amples":ConsistencyPlausibilityExperimentation)iological gradientCoherence%emporality#trength of association# pecificity
*eia+iity* andom Error *Educes *Eliability (*E producibility)
Error: type I ap!a- vs. type II +eta-%ype I (Alpha) Error: "%here Is An Effect" where in realitythere is none
Ciarette smo/e: ma0or carcinoens
PAN%:Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbonsAromatic aminesNitrosamines%ar· Nicotine and Carbon monoxide are Non-Carcinogenic
#uicide ris/ factors in order of ris/ #OA*#:· *op 1 ris factors in order of highest to lowest ris:#erious previous attemptOlder than .Alcohol
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* age history#ex (male)
Incidence vs. prevaenceIncidence: Initiate Infection In IntervalPrevalence: Population6s Percentage Positive
Prevention: primary vs. secondary vs. tertiaryPrimary: Predisposing factors decreased#econdary: #everity decreased%ertiary: %herapy' %raining
*eca +ias*Ecall bias is a problem with *Etrospective studies and is based on ability to *Emember
Audit process"As #he O pened' Colin Inserted Excitedly":Aim
#etting standardsO bserve practiceCompare with standardsImplement changeEvaluate S
Poisson distri+ution formua1NE1ONIc: 1 to the Nth power times E to the 1inusnth Over N factoria 7ormula is: ((m8n) 9 (e8-n) ) # n5 · ote: the factorial (2) at the end is an inverted lowercaseletter i
#uicide ris/ factors
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#AD PE*#ON#:#ex: maleAge: young' elderlyDepressionPrevious suicide attemptsEthanol and other drugs* eality testing# * ational thought (loss of)#ocial support lacingOrgani$ed suicide planNo spouse #icness##tated future intent
