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In evaluating a screening test, “sensitivity” is: 

Policies, procedures, and threshold levels of a screening test should be determined in advance to establish who should be referred for further testing, diagnostics and possible treatment. Once these are determined in at least one study population, the screening test can be administered on any population in the world.

Prior to developing a health promotion program, researchers would like to determine the prevalence and characteristics of binge drinking in Wood County, Wisconsin. What study design should they use?

When conducting a Meta-Analysis, researchers sometimes evaluate studies that were not published as well as those that were published.  This is to avoid recall bias.

Researchers at the Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Company are interested in determining the effectiveness of a new (untested) long-acting insulin for type 1 diabetes treatment. What type of study design should they use?

The unexposed group (comparison group) should be as similar as possible to the exposed group in a cohort study. This is why researchers used randomization at the start of the study.

In evaluating a screening test, a “false positive” is:

The Sensitivity of the test shown above is:

The FDA reviews phase 4 study results.

An approach to systematically evaluate the results of many individual research studies to arrive at an overall conclusion about a body of research is: