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  1. study participants (subjects*, participants) — 423 views
    “The people included in a study” … (read more)
  2.   statistically significant — 354 views
    “A result that is unlikely to have happened by chance. The usual threshold for this judgement is a likelihood of less than 5%” … (read more)
  3. non-randomized study (non-experimental study, observational study,) — 348 views
    “A category of studies that does not use random allocation to assign participants to treatment comparison groups” … (read more)
  4. utility value — 303 views
    “In health economic evaluations, a measure of the strength of preference for a specific health outcome” … (read more)
  5. type of study (research design) — 302 views
    “Key features of research methods used to categorize types of studies” … (read more)
  6. margin of error (CI, margin of error,) — 297 views
    “A measure of uncertainty due to the play of chance” … (read more)
  7. index test — 294 views
    “A diagnostic test that is being evaluated against a reference standard test in a study of test accuracy” … (read more)
  8. measurement bias (ascertainment bias, detection bias, observer bias) — 289 views
    “Bias resulting from systematic differences in how outcomes are measured in treatment comparison groups in a study.” … (read more)
  9. treatment effect (clinical impact, estimate of effect, impact) — 288 views
    “Changes (increases or decreases) or differences in health outcomes as a result of treatments” … (read more)
  10. benefit (desirable anticipated effect, desirable effect) — 288 views
    “Difference in outcomes that favours a treatment in a treatment comparison” … (read more)