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Quiz for Introduction to Health Services Research Module 6

Module 6 described four major study designs: surveys, cohort studies, case control studies and randomized clinical trials. It helped you understand their strengths and weaknesses. Upon successful completion of this quiz you may request a Certificate of Success by clicking on the button located at the bottom of the answer page.


1. __________study participants and researchers avoids treating people differently based on the intervention. (Select the best word or phrase from the list below).

Choosing
Masking
Dividing up
Using more than one PI to


2. Surveys are not very good at capturing practices and health conditions of large groups of people. True | False

True
False


3. Several disadvantages to using cohort studies may exist. Which of the items listed below does not belong or is incorrect?

it may take many years to detect changes in the groups
researchers may be tempted to decrease the length of the study due to the time involved
participants may drop out of the study as time passes
cohort studies may be very costly
cohort studies require few participants


4. Surveys are a major data collection method in health services research. Researchers may collect data from _______ with patients, the public, clinicians, health care administrators, and others or from ________ of hospital discharges, patient charts and medical records, disease registries, and billing documents. (Select the best pair/combination of words).

interviews | reports
examination of the medical record | reminders
discussions | logbooks
interrogations | extrapolations


5. (Study type) are very useful for rare diseases that require many years to develop and many people to observe in order to find them. (select the most appropriate study name).

Randomized clinical trials
Case-control studies
Surveys
Cohort studies

 

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First published: 05 December 2003
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