アブストラクト(34巻1号:The Bulletin of Kanagawa Dental College)

The Bulletin of Kanagawa Dental College

English

Title : Good Studies of Prognosis
Subtitle : BKDC CLINICAL AND RESEARCH TOPICS : Evidence-based Medicine and Dentistry
Authors : Yoshiyuki Sasaki
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Organization : Center for Education and Research in Oral Health Care, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Journal : The Bulletin of Kanagawa Dental College
Volume : 34
Number : 1
Page : 41-45
Year/Month : 2006 / 3
Article : Report
Publisher : Kanagawa Odontological Society
Abstract : [Points to be appraised] 1. Is it considered that bias does not occur? 2. Is the considerable confounding factor measured and adjusted? 3. Does the result factor lead to a true outcome rather than a surrogate outcome? 4. In a process of causal inference, is a distinction being made as to whether the exposure factor is a factor or a marker? 5. Is the generalizability of an available result high? In an observational study, a cohort study is the most suitable study design to obtain evidence helpful in making prognoses. A cohort study designed adequately is performed using the following procedures. Exposure factors are measured after selecting subjects (cohort) from the population. The outcome factors are measured after a fixed time course. In other words, a cohort study is a longitudinal section study that prescribes a target population in the exposure of a factor, and exposure factors are measured before the occurrence of outcome factors. In a cohort study of a classic design, it is common to include a control group. However, a dental disease makes ends meet with a "web of causation" of multifactor. It is difficult to form groups using a combination of each factor in such a disease. Therefore a multivariate analysis is performed from data of plural exposure factors without making a control group.
Practice : Dentistry
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