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  1. study participants (subjects*, participants) — 320 views
    “The people included in a study” … (read more)
  2. non-randomized study (non-experimental study, observational study,) — 272 views
    “A category of studies that does not use random allocation to assign participants to treatment comparison groups” … (read more)
  3.   statistically significant — 256 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)
  4. utility value — 238 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) — 227 views
    “Key features of research methods used to categorize types of studies” … (read more)
  6. margin of error (CI, margin of error,) — 219 views
    “A measure of uncertainty due to the play of chance” … (read more)
  7. index test — 218 views
    “A diagnostic test that is being evaluated against a reference standard test in a study of test accuracy” … (read more)
  8. research evidence (research findings, research results) — 214 views
    “The findings of studies, including systematic reviews” … (read more)
  9. measurement bias (ascertainment bias, detection bias, observer bias) — 213 views
    “Bias resulting from systematic differences in how outcomes are measured in treatment comparison groups in a study.” … (read more)
  10. play of chance (random error) — 213 views
    “In treatment comparisons, a type of error that may affect the results because too few events or outcomes have been observed to provide a reliable measure of the treatment effects” … (read more)