Unit 3 Assignment 2-1. What Are Medical Data
Insherah M. AlJoudi
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2-1 Submission
Answer the following questions prior to this week's in-class meeting:
What are medical data?
1- pieces of information, especially those that are part of a collection to be used in an analysis of a problem, such as the diagnosis of a health problem.
2- facts stored and processed by a computer.
How are medical data used?
Create the Basis for the Historical Record
Support Communication Among Providers
Anticipate Future Health Problems
Record Standard Preventive Measures
Identify Deviations from Expected Trends
Provide a Legal Record
Support Clinical Research
What are the drawbacks of the traditional paper medical record?
Slow data exchange
Scattered patient data
Patient data cannot be accessed by multiple …show more content…
It is used very broadly. I often hear of a KB described as being in peoples head or in a filing cabinet.
How are data collection and hypothesis generation linked in medical diagnoses?
Three Major Techniques for Collecting Data:
Questionnaires
Interviews
Observations
What are the meanings of the terms prevalence, predictive value, sensitivity, and specificity?
The prevalence of a disease is simply a measure of the frequency with which the disease occurs in the population of interest.
The predictive value of a test is simply the posttest (updated) probability that a disease is present based on the results of a test.
The word used to describe this relationship is specificity
The notion of sensitivity the likelihood that a given piece of data will be observed in a patient with a given disease or condition is an important one, but it will not alone account for the process of hypothesis generation in medical diagnosis.
How are the terms related?
(sensitivity)(prevalence)
PV+= ——————————————————————— (sensitivity)(prevalence) + (1- specificity) (1-
120008677
2-1 Submission
Answer the following questions prior to this week's in-class meeting:
What are medical data?
1- pieces of information, especially those that are part of a collection to be used in an analysis of a problem, such as the diagnosis of a health problem.
2- facts stored and processed by a computer.
How are medical data used?
Create the Basis for the Historical Record
Support Communication Among Providers
Anticipate Future Health Problems
Record Standard Preventive Measures
Identify Deviations from Expected Trends
Provide a Legal Record
Support Clinical Research
What are the drawbacks of the traditional paper medical record?
Slow data exchange
Scattered patient data
Patient data cannot be accessed by multiple …show more content…
It is used very broadly. I often hear of a KB described as being in peoples head or in a filing cabinet.
How are data collection and hypothesis generation linked in medical diagnoses?
Three Major Techniques for Collecting Data:
Questionnaires
Interviews
Observations
What are the meanings of the terms prevalence, predictive value, sensitivity, and specificity?
The prevalence of a disease is simply a measure of the frequency with which the disease occurs in the population of interest.
The predictive value of a test is simply the posttest (updated) probability that a disease is present based on the results of a test.
The word used to describe this relationship is specificity
The notion of sensitivity the likelihood that a given piece of data will be observed in a patient with a given disease or condition is an important one, but it will not alone account for the process of hypothesis generation in medical diagnosis.
How are the terms related?
(sensitivity)(prevalence)
PV+= ——————————————————————— (sensitivity)(prevalence) + (1- specificity) (1-